Jeremiah 12:7 “I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have give…”

Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue forsaken mine house: I haue left mine heritage: I haue giuen the dearely beloued of my soule into the hands of her enemies.

Darby Translation

I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage, I have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Young's Literal Translation

I have forsaken My house, I have left Mine inheritance, I have given the beloved of My soul Into the hand of her enemies.

Bible in Basic English

I 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.

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Cross references

“have forsaken”

Isaiah 2:6 Jeremiah 11:15 Hosea 9:15 Jeremiah 51:5 Joel 2:15 Joel 3:2

Isaiah 2:6 · BSB

For 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.

Jeremiah 11:15 · BSB

What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.

Hosea 9:15 · BSB

All 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.

Jeremiah 51:5 · BSB

For 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.”

Joel 2:15 · BSB

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

Joel 3:2 · BSB

I 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 th…

“I have given”

Lamentations 2:1–22 Jeremiah 7:14 Ezekiel 24:21 Luke 21:24 Ezekiel 7:20 Ezekiel 7:21

Lamentations 2:1–22 · BSB

How 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 7:14 · BSB

therefore 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.

Ezekiel 24:21 · BSB

Tell 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 beh…

Luke 21:24 · BSB

They 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.

Ezekiel 7:20 · BSB

His 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 7:21 · BSB

And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

Also

Jeremiah 7:29

Jeremiah 7:29 · BSB

Cut 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.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

8My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

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