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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- 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.
- NKJV “I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.
- NASB ¶“I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have handed the beloved of My soul Over to her enemies.
- NLT “I have abandoned my people, my special possession. I have surrendered my dearest ones to their enemies.
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Quick answer
God grievously declares that He has forsaken His house and handed His beloved people to their enemies.
Overview
These words reveal God's sorrow as He gives up His treasured people to judgment for their sin. The tender phrase 'dearly beloved of my soul' shows that judgment costs God's own heart. It points toward the cross, where God did not spare His own beloved Son in order to redeem an undeserving people (Romans 8:32).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Isa 2:6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
- Ps 78:59–60When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
- Jer 11:15What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
- Lam 2:1–22How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
- Hos 9:15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
- Ezek 7:20–21As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
- Jer 7:29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Joel 2:15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
- Luke 21:24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
- Jer 51:5For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
- Joel 3:2I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
- Ezek 24:21Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
- Jer 7:14Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
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