Jeremiah 12 · Verse 7

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.
Jeremiah 12:7, King James Version

Jeremiah 12:7 in other translations

BSBI have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
WEB“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.
ASVI 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.
YLTI have forsaken My house, I have left Mine inheritance, I have given the beloved of My soul Into the hand of her enemies.
DARBYI have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage, I have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
BBEI have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
WebsterI have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

What does Jeremiah 12:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. 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).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 12:7-13
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 upon them. The whole land would be made desolate. But until the judgments were actually inflicted, none of the people would lay the warning to heart. When God's hand is lifted up, and men will not see, they shall be made to feel. Silver and gold shall not profit in the day of the Lord's anger. And the efforts of sinners to escape misery, without repentance and works answerable thereto, will end in confusion.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Jeremiah 12:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

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

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 12:7

  • Isaiah 2:6

    Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

  • Psalms 78:59-60

    When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

  • Jeremiah 11:15

    What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

  • Hosea 9:15

    All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

  • Lamentations 2:1-22

    How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. …

  • Ezekiel 24:21

    Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

  • Jeremiah 7:14

    Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

  • Ezekiel 7:20-21

    As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

  • Luke 21:24

    And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

  • Joel 2:15

    Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

  • Jeremiah 51:5

    For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jeremiah 7:29

    Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
have forsaken.
11:15; 51:5; Isa 2:6; Ps 78:59,60; Ho 9:15; Joe 2:15; 3:2
I have given.
7:14; La 2:1-22; Eze 7:20,21; 24:21; Lu 21:24
dearly beloved. Heb. love.

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Context

  • Jeremiah 12:6

    For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

  • 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.

  • Jeremiah 12:8

    Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

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Jeremiah 12:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
He dejado mi casa, desamparé mi heredad, entregado he lo que amaba mi alma en manos de sus enemigos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
J’ai abandonné ma maison, j’ai délaissé mon héritage, j’ai livré le bien-aimé de mon âme en la main de ses ennemis.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich habe mein Haus verlassen, mein Erbteil verstoßen, ich habe den Liebling meiner Seele in die Hand seiner Feinde gegeben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Reliqui domum meam; dimisi hæreditatem meam: dedi dilectam animam meam in manu inimicorum ejus.