Jeremiah 12:7 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

The people of the Jews are here marked for ruin. I. God is here brought in falling out with them and leaving them desolate; and they could never have been undone if they had not provoked God to desert them. It is a terrible word that God here says (Jer. 12:7): I have forsaken my house?the temple, which had been his palace; they had polluted it, and so forced him out of it: I have left my heritage, and will look after it no more. His people that he has taken such delight in, and care of, are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7

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 Chaldeans; and more fully in the second, when Christ took his leave of it, Matthew 23:38 and when that voice was heard in it, a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, as Josephus F1 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 5. sect. 3. relates, "let us go hence.' So the Targum, "I have forsaken the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 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. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:7

Verse 7 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 been done to the Prophet, but regard has been had to what he taught. He now adds, Forsaken have I my house and left my heritage God here declares that it was all over with the people. They were inebriated with vain confidence, relying on the covenant which God had made. with their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken mine house . The "house" is here not the temple, but the people of Israel, as the parallel clause shows (see Hosea 8:1 , and setup. Hebrews 3:6 ; 1 Timothy 3:15 ). Jehovah, not the prophet, is evidently the speaker. I have left ; rather, I have east away . Into the hand of her enemies. The Hebrew is more expressive: "Into the palm of the hand." Bonomi has an engraving from the monuments of guests at a banquet, holding their drinking-vessels in the deeply... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7

The forsaken heritage. I. GOD REGARDS HIS PEOPLE AS HIS LINEAGE . The temple was God's house, the Jews were God's heritage. The Church is now the habitation of the Spirit of God, and her members are God's possession. This fact implies: 1. That God dwells with his people. 2. That he takes delight in them. 3. That he may be expected to protect them from harm. 4. That he has rights over them and claims their submission to himself. 5. That his honor is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-8

Leaving all for God. (Naegelsbach is of opinion that the words of Jeremiah 12:7-13 "are to be understood as having a double reference," i.e. both to the prophet's own feelings and to Jehovah's judgment. Zwingli and Bugenhagen consider that Jehovah begins to speak at "Go" or "Come," in Jeremiah 12:9 . There is evidently an intimate blending of the prophetic with the Divine consciousness throughout the whole passage.) A hard duty, but one often devolving upon faithful servants of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-11

The inheritance that has lost its charms. I. WE HAVE HERE REGRETFUL THOUGHTS OF THE PAST . We can see what the prophet once hoped and desired. Not only what he had hoped and desired in those dreams of youth before God had touched his heart and claimed the service of his lips, but also what he had hoped and desired since becoming a prophet. Dear as Anathoth with its inhabitants may have been before, it would become dearer still when he thought of impending calamities to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

The hiding of God's face. Here is a most terrible condition of things set forth. It may be taken as telling of the calamities which ensue when God hides his face from his people. It is terrible every way. Because— I. OF HIM BY WHOM HIS FACE IS HIDDEN . It is God. We feel such conduct from our fellow-men according to our estimate of the person who manifests it. Now, all these facts which make the hiding of his face grievous to us meet in God—righteousness, goodness,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-17

A separate prophecy. The key to it is in 2 Kings 24:1 , 2 Kings 24:2 , where it is related that, after Jehoiakim's rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar, "Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it." The prophecy falls into two strophes or sections, 2 Kings 24:7-13 and 2 Kings 24:14-17 . In the first we have a complaint of the desolation produced by the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 12:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 12:7-17

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