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Jeremiah 12:7

I 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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙'a.Zav.tiI have forsakenH5800 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בֵּיתִ֔יbei.Tihouse myH1004 →
נָטַ֖שְׁתִּיna.Tash.tiI have abandonedH5203 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
נַחֲלָתִ֑יna.cha.la.Tiinheritance myH5159 →
נָתַ֛תִּיna.Ta.tiI have givenH5414 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
יְדִד֥וּתye.di.Dut[the] beloved one ofH3033 →
נַפְשִׁ֖יnaf.Shiself myH5315 →
בְּכַ֥ףbe.Khafin [the] handH3709 →
אֹיְבֶֽיהָ׃'o.ye.Vei.haenemies herH341 →

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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 78:59–60On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.Jeremiah 11:15What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?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.Lamentations 2:1–22How 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.Jeremiah 23:33“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’Ezekiel 7:20–21His 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.’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.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.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.Joel 2:15Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.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.”2 Kings 21:14So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,Isaiah 6:12until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.Jeremiah 17:4And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”Lamentations 1:5Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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