Jeremiah 12:7

Jeremiah 12:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
• New International Version (NIV)“I will forsake my house, abandon my inheritance; I will give the one I love into the hands of her enemies.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

Context of Jeremiah 12:7

5“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan? 6Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you. I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies. 8My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her. 9Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

Jeremiah 12:7 word by word

עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙ אֶת־בֵּיתִ֔י נָטַ֖שְׁתִּי אֶת־נַחֲלָתִ֑י נָתַ֛תִּי אֶת־יְדִד֥וּת נַפְשִׁ֖י בְּכַ֥ף אֹיְבֶֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear

• I have forsakenעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
• ·אֵת'êth · [Obj.]H853
• My houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: templeH1004
• I have abandonedנָטַשׁnâţash · to leaveH5203
• My inheritanceנַחֲלָהnachălâh · inheritanceH5159
• I have givenנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• the belovedיְדִדוּתyedidûth · belovedH3033
• of My soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315
• into the handsכַּףkaph · palmH3709
• of her enemiesאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341

Cross-references for Jeremiah 12:7

• Jeremiah 11:15What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
• Jeremiah 51:5For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
• Isaiah 2:6For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
• Psalms 78:59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
• Hosea 9:15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
• Joel 2:15Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
• Joel 3:2I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
• Jeremiah 7:14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
• Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
• Ezekiel 7:20His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
• Ezekiel 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’
• Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 12:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7I have forsaken mine house - I have abandoned my temple. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul - The people once in covenant with me, and inexpressibly dear to me while faithful. Into the hand of her enemies - This was a condition in the covenant I made with them; If they forsook me, they were to be abandoned to their enemies, and cast out of the good land I gave to their fathers.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7-9Verses 7-9 Yahweh shows that the downfall of the nation was occasioned by no want of love on His part, but by the nation‘s conduct. Left - More correctly, cast away. Jeremiah 12:8 Judah has not merely refused obedience, but become intractable and fierce, like an untamed lion. It has roared against God with open blasphemy. As His favor is life, so is His hatred death, i. e., Jerusalem‘s punishment shall be as if inflicted by one that hated her. Jeremiah…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 God's people had been the dearly-beloved of his soul, precious in his sight, but they acted so, that he gave them up to their enemies. Many professing churches become like speckled birds, presenting a mixture of religion and the world, with its vain fashions, pursuits, and pollutions. God's people are as men wondered at, as a speckled bird; but this people had by their own folly made themselves so; and the beasts and birds are called to prey…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-13God referred to the people of Judah as his special possession, his dearest ones, his chosen people, and his vineyard. However, they became hostile to him, so they had to be given over to their enemies. The most severe justice they could face was for the Lord to withdraw and let them suffer the consequences of their evil actions.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. I have forsaken--Jehovah will forsake His temple and the people peculiarly His. The mention of God's close tie to them, as heretofore His, aggravates their ingratitude, and shows that their past spiritual privileges will not prevent God from punishing them. beloved of my soul--image from a wife (Jr 11:15; Is 54:5).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings