Jeremías 12:7

7 »Yo he abandonado a mi pueblo, mi posesión más preciada.
He entregado a los que más amo a sus enemigos.

Jeremías 12:7 Meaning and 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 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 5. sect. 3.

Jeremías 12:7 In-Context

5 El Señor
le contesta a Jeremías
«Si te cansa competir contra simples hombres,
¿cómo podrás correr contra caballos?
Si tropiezas y caes en campo abierto,
¿qué harás en los matorrales cerca del Jordán?

6 Aun tus hermanos, miembros de tu propia familia,
se han vuelto contra ti;
conspiran y se quejan de ti.
No confíes en ellos,
no importa lo amables que sean sus palabras.

7 »Yo he abandonado a mi pueblo, mi posesión más preciada.
He entregado a los que más amo a sus enemigos.

8 Mi pueblo elegido ha rugido contra mí como un león en la selva,
por eso lo traté con desprecio.

9 Mi pueblo elegido se comporta como buitres moteados,
pero es el pueblo mismo el que está rodeado de buitres.
¡Que salgan los animales salvajes para que despedacen sus cadáveres!