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...
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...
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...
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....
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_....
_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....
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...
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...
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...
1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah....
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...
עָזַ֨בְתִּי֙ אֶת ־בֵּיתִ֔י נָטַ֖שְׁתִּי אֶת ־נַחֲלָתִ֑י...
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...
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...
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,...
_Soul; people, (Haydock) whose punishment was decreed. Say not, therefore, that the wicked always prosper._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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,...
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...
ISRAEL SPOILED BY THE ENEMIES...
THE DEARLY BELOVED: _ Heb._ the love...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 12:7 forsaken H5800 (H8804) house H1004 left H5203 (H8804) heritage H5159 given H5414 (H8804) beloved...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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):...
Ezekiel 24:21; Ezekiel 7:20; Ezekiel 7:21; Hosea 9:15; Isaiah 2:6;...
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....