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‘Jeremiah, you are running a race against people, and you are already tired! So you will never be able to run a race against horses. You are walking in flat fields, and you still fall over! So it will be much worse when you try to run through the trees and bushes near the Jordan River. 6Even your own brothers and family have turned against you. They join with other people to attack you. So do not trust them, even when they say kind words to you. I have decided to turn away from my nation. I will leave the people that I chose to belong to me. I will put the people that I love under the power of their enemies. 8The people that belong to me have turned against me. They are like a lion that hides in the forest. It roars and is ready to attack me. Because of that, I have turned against my people. 9They attack me like hyenas, but vultures are ready to attack them. Tell all the wild animals to come, so that they can eat their dead bodies!

Jeremiah 12:7 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• I have forsakenעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
• mine houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: templeH1004
• I have leftנָטַשׁnâţash · to leaveH5203
• mine heritageנַחֲלָהnachălâh · inheritanceH5159
• I have givenנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• the dearly belovedיְדִדוּתyedidûth · belovedH3033
• of my soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315
• into the handכַּףkaph · palmH3709
• of her enemiesאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341

Cross-references for Jeremiah 12:7

• Jeremiah 11:15The people that I love are doing wicked things. They should not be in my temple. They think that they will be safe if they offer animal sacrifices to me. They enjoy the evil things that they do, and their punishment will certainly happen.
• Jeremiah 51:5The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, will not leave Israel and Judah on their own. Those people are guilty of many bad things that they have done against Israel's holy God.
• Isaiah 2:6Lord, you have gone away from your people. They are Jacob's descendants. They are full of ideas from countries in the east. They use magic to learn about future times, as the Philistines do. They join hands with foreign people.
• Psalms 78:59God heard what they were doing, and he became very angry. He turned against the Israelite people.
• Hosea 9:15The Lord says, ‘They started to do evil things at Gilgal. It was there that I began to hate them. Because they do evil things, I will chase them out of my land. I will not love them any more. Their leaders have all turned against me.
• Joel 2:15Blow the trumpet in Zion. Tell the people that they must not eat any food. Tell the people that they must all come to worship him.
• Joel 3:2Then I will bring all the nations together. I will bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will judge against them because of what they did to my children, my people Israel. Those nations pushed my people out into other countries. They broke up my land and each took pieces.
• Jeremiah 7:14“So now I will destroy this temple that I chose to be my home. I gave this temple to you and to your ancestors. You think that it will keep you safe. But I will destroy it, as I destroyed Shiloh.
• Lamentations 2:1The Lord was very angry. He wanted Zion's people to be ashamed. Zion was the most beautiful city in Israel. But he has put it down to the ground from its high place. Zion was like a place where he had rested his feet. Now that he is angry, he has forgotten about that.
• Ezekiel 7:20They were proud of their beautiful jewels. They used them to make disgusting idols and images. That is why I, the Lord, have made them hate their valuable things.
• Ezekiel 24:21Say to Israel's people, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: Listen! I will now make my holy place become unclean. It is the place that makes you very proud. You love it because it is so beautiful. But now enemy soldiers will kill your sons and daughters that you left in Jerusalem.
• Luke 21:24At that time, enemies will fight God's people and kill many of them in war. They will take some of them away as prisoners to live in all the other countries. They will not be free to return home. People that are not Jews will destroy Jerusalem. They will rule here until it is time for them to stop.’

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