Geremia 12:7

7 Io ho lasciato la mia casa, ho abbandonato la mia eredità; ho dato quello che l’anima mia ha di più caro, nelle mani de’ suoi nemici.

Geremia 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.

Geremia 12:7 In-Context

5 Se, correndo con de’ pedoni, questi ti stancano, come potrai lottare coi cavalli? E se non ti senti al sicuro che in terra di pace, come farai quando il Giordano sarà gonfio?

6 Perché perfino i tuoi fratelli e la casa di tuo padre ti tradiscono; anch’essi ti gridan dietro a piena voce; non li credere quando ti diranno delle buone parole.

7 Io ho lasciato la mia casa, ho abbandonato la mia eredità; ho dato quello che l’anima mia ha di più caro, nelle mani de’ suoi nemici.

8 La mia eredità è divenuta per me come un leone nella foresta; ha mandato contro di me il suo ruggito; perciò io l’ho odiata.

9 La mia eredità è stata per me come l’uccello rapace screziato; gli uccelli rapaci si gettan contro di lei da ogni parte. Andate, radunate tutte le bestie della campagna, fatele venire a divorare!