Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
Jeremiah 12
Pride, or beauty. H. understands the text of the bank or grove of the Jordan, which was beautiful, but was infested with wild beasts from the interior. The confidence enjoyed in a land where peace and prosperity prevailed, afforded no security for one exposed to wild beasts. St. Jeromo says: "If thou hadst some confidence whilst in thy own country, what will thou have when thou shalt have passed the Jordan, and when thou shalt encounter its whirlpools?"
P. "They have called a multitude after thee." The term rendered " multitude" is translated "full" by Rascbi, as well as V., the same letters with different punctuation having a different meaning.
No one seems to advert to the widespread desolation. No one lays to heart the Dirias warnings.
You arrive at the cited line; the whole work is yours to read around it. The text is set from the cited public-domain edition.