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Jeremiah 12:7

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.

I have forsaken mine house - Yahweh will forsake His temple and the people peculiarly His ("mine heritage"). 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 (; ).

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See also Jeremiah 12:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 12:7. _I 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 fa...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 12 The Prophet's Prayer and the House Forsaken, Yet Compassion _ 1. The prophet's prayer (Jeremiah 12:1) 2. The house forsaken, yet compassion (Jeremiah 12:7) _ Jeremiah 12:1. In his outburs...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH BY HER NEIGHBOURS, AND THEIR FUTURE. This isolated prophecy is most naturally referred to the events of 2 Kings 24:1 f., when Jehoiakim had revolted against Nebuchadrezzar (_c....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE DEARLY BELOVED. Hebrew. love. Put by Figure of speech. _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for one loved. MY SOUL. I Myself (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13. Figure of speech. _Anthropopatheia_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 12:7-17. Devastation of Judah to be wrought by hostile neighbours, who shall be punished by exile unless they submit to the God of Israel Jehovah in pathetic language deplores the necessity...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _mine house_ shewn by the parallelism of the clauses to mean, not the Temple, but the nation itself; so in Hosea 8:1; Hosea 9:15....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IV. THE PAIN OF GOD Jeremiah 12:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) I have forsaken My house, I have left My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies. (8) My inheritance has be...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE FORSAKEN MINE HOUSE. — The speaker is clearly Jehovah, but the connection with what precedes is not clear. Possibly we have, in this chapter, what in the writings of a poet would be called frag...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עָזַ֨בְתִּי֙ אֶת ־בֵּיתִ֔י נָטַ֖שְׁתִּי אֶת ־נַחֲלָתִ֑י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Now we hear the prophet as he appealed to Jehovah to be his Defender, and. finally, we hear the divine determination. concerning his evil neighbors. This peril was revealed to him by Jehovah. It was...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I have forsaken (g) my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. (g) God wills the prophet to denounce his judgments against Jerusalem,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Soul; people, (Haydock) whose punishment was decreed. Say not, therefore, that the wicked always prosper._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I hope that I do not use any violence to this passage, neither strain the holy scripture, when I say, that after everything which may be said, in allusion here to Israel, I venture to consider somewha...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He confirms what I have already stated; he testifies that the people were either openly furious or acting perfidiously and deceitfully; nor has it been the object hitherto merely to say that wrong had...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Chapter 11 suggests some observations. God addresses Himself again to Israel on the ground of their responsibility, reminding them of the call to o...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE FORSAKEN MY HOUSE,.... The temple, where the Lord took up his residence, and vouchsafed his presence to his people; this was fulfilled in the first temple, when it was destroyed by the Chaldean...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 7. _I have forsaken my house._] A man's house is dear to him, dear...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I have forsaken my house_ My temple, where I had placed my name. I have already withdrawn my favourable regard and presence from it, and shall withhold those manifestations of my power and goodness,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL SPOILED BY THE ENEMIES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have forsaken Mine house, so the Lord tells His prophet, I HAVE LEFT MINE HERITAGE, repudiating His chosen people, in the midst of whom He had established, and hoped to maintain, His Church; I HAVE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE DEARLY BELOVED: _ Heb._ the love...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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, presen...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    God by his HOUSE here understandeth the temple, which God is said here to have forsaken with respect to his gracious manifestations in it to the people that came thither to worship him. By his HERITAG...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 12:7 forsaken H5800 (H8804) house H1004 left H5203 (H8804) heritage H5159 given H5414 (H8804) beloved...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH HAS FORSAKEN HIS HOUSE AND REJECTED HIS HERITAGE BECAUSE OF WHAT IT HAS BECOME, AND THEIR EVIL NEIGHBOURS WILL ALSO BE PUNISHED, BUT EVEN FOR THEM THERE WILL BE HOPE IN THE FUTURE IF THEY TURN TO...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message on the broken covenant, concluded. Jeremiah's complaint to God and God's rebuke. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: When we find it hard to understand God's providences toward w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 12:4. _He shall not see our last end._ This is sadducean language, as Psalms 104:5. “The Lord will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard.” This species of atheism blunts the edge of t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 12:7 God has FORSAKEN his people, the BELOVED OF his SOUL, turning them over to judgment. His suffering exceeds Jeremiah’s....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. See on chap. 11, Bleek’s theory; for which there is a weight of argument. All commentators agree to connect Jeremiah 12:1 with the conclusi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 12:1 Painfully exercised by the mysteries of the Divine government, the prophet opens his grief to Jehovah. Righteous art thou, etc.; rather, _Righteous wouldest thou be_,_ O Jeho...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jeremiah goes on and he is talking now about the situation, the wicked man Jehoahaz that is in power. And he begins by saying, Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee (Jeremiah 12:1):...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 24:21; Ezekiel 7:20; Ezekiel 7:21; Hosea 9:15; Isaiah 2:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My house — God by his house here understands the temple. Heritage — The whole body of the Israelites, whom God threatens to leave with respect to his special providence....

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