Jeremiah 12:7
in Jeremiah 12I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
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ASV
I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
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.
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This verse in Jeremiah 12
Commentary
4 notes on this verseon Jeremiah 12:7-8
(Vers. 7, 8.) I left my house, I abandoned my inheritance: I gave my beloved soul into the hands of its enemies. My inheritance became like a lion in the forest: it roared against me, therefore I hated it. He who spoke in the Gospel: Rise, let us go from here (John 14:31). And again: Your house will be left desolate (Luke 13:35), here and also in the same prophet he threatens; and he says that he has done what he was going to do. For the inheritance of the Lord is Israel, and his inheritance is as a rope.
This site's exposition
I have forsaken mine house
on Jeremiah 12:7-9
The Lord speaks now in his own grief, using language as intimate as the prophet's, I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage, the dearly beloved of my soul given into the hand of her enemies. The heritage turns hostile in two pictures, a lion in the forest crying out against its own owner and a speckled bird set upon by other birds, images the bench reads as Judah's own strangeness making her prey rather than an outside enemy inventing a grievance.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
on Jeremiah 12:7-13
An intimation of mercy to God's people, in a denunciation of wrath against their neighbours that helped forward their affliction, that they should be plucked out; but with a promise that if they would at last join themselves with the people of God they should come in sharers with them in their privileges,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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. Jer 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. Jer 12:9 Rather, “Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird? Are the birds upon her round about?
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙ | ʾazavti | I have forsaken | H5800 → | 215 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בֵּיתִ֔י | beiti | house my | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| נָטַ֖שְׁתִּי | natashti | I have abandoned | H5203 → | 40 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נַחֲלָתִ֑י | nachalati | inheritance my | H5159 → | 222 times |
| נָתַ֛תִּי | natati | I have given | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְדִד֥וּת | yedidut | [the] beloved one of | H3033 → | |
| נַפְשִׁ֖י | nafshi | self my | H5315 → | 754 times |
| בְּכַ֥ף | bekhaf | in [the] hand | H3709 → | 192 times |
| אֹיְבֶֽיהָ׃ | ʾoyeveiha | enemies her | H341 → | 282 times |
עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙I have forsaken
ʾazavtiH5800 →215 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בֵּיתִ֔יhouse my
beitiH1004 →2046 times
נָטַ֖שְׁתִּיI have abandoned
natashtiH5203 →40 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
נַחֲלָתִ֑יinheritance my
nachalatiH5159 →222 times
נָתַ֛תִּיI have given
natatiH5414 →2011 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יְדִד֥וּת[the] beloved one of
yedidutH3033 →
נַפְשִׁ֖יself my
nafshiH5315 →754 times
בְּכַ֥ףin [the] hand
bekhafH3709 →192 times
אֹיְבֶֽיהָ׃enemies her
ʾoyeveihaH341 →282 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
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…
it leads to
- Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Hosea 4:15
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
- 1 Samuel 7:16
Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
- Amos 5:5
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
- Hosea 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
- Isaiah 1:23
Through
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.
it leads to
- Romans 11:20
That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
- Deuteronomy 18:10–14
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- 2 Kings 1:2
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will…
- Romans 11:20
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.