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
relates,
``let us go hence.''
So the Targum,
``I have forsaken the house of my sanctuary.''
I have left mine heritage:
the people whom he had chosen for his inheritance, whom he prized
and valued, took care of, and protected as such; see (
Deuteronomy
32:9 ) .
I have given the dearly beloved of my
soul;
whom he heartily loved and delighted in, and who were as dear to
him as the apple of his eye:
into the hands of her
enemies;
the Chaldeans. This prophecy represents the thing as if it was
already done, because of the certainty of it, and to awaken the
Jews out of their lethargy and stupidity; and by the characters
which the Lord gives of them it appears what ingratitude they had
been guilty of, and that their ruin was owing to themselves and
their sins.