Jeremiah 12:7

⁵ “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

⁶ Even 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.

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

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

⁹ Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands 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.
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.
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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

ÅB: Jeg har forlatt mitt hus, forkastet min arv; jeg har gitt min sjels elskede i hennes fienders hånd.
OTB: “Jeg har forlatt mitt hus, jeg har forlatt min arv; jeg har gitt min sjels elskede i hendene på hennes fiender.
B1930: Jeg har forlatt mitt hus, forkastet min arv; jeg har gitt min sjels elskede i hennes fienders hånd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 2:6
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.
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Psalms 78:59–60
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
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Jeremiah 11:15
What 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?
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Hosea 9:15
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.
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Lamentations 2:1–22
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.
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Ezekiel 24:21
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 behind will fall by the sword.’
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Jeremiah 7:14
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.
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Ezekiel 7:20–21
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.
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