Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 12:3

3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me, thou hast seen me, and tried my heart toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter .

Here seemeth to be something understood, viz. But Lord it is otherwise with me, I am maligned, and my life is hunted after, yet Lord thou knowest the sincerity of my heart before and towards thee, thou hast had experience of me in the discharge of my Prophetical Office, and knowest that I have been faithful in revealing to the people what thou didst reveal to me, yet for this it is they seek my life and would have my blood.

Lord avenge me on this wicked Generation, confirm the words against them which I have from thee denounced. Concerning the meaning of expressions of this nature, and the lawfulness of putting up such petitions against those who are not onely our Enemies but Gods also, see what was noted on, chapter 11. ver. 20.

Marginal references: Psal. 17.3.139.1.; Heb. with thee.