“I have abandoned my people, my special possession. I have surrendered my dearest ones to their 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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 2:6For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
- Ps 78:59–60When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
- Jer 11:15What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”
- Lam 2:1–22How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Hos 9:15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
- Ezek 7:20–21As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
- Jer 7:29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Joel 2:15Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
- Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- Jer 51:5For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
- Joel 3:2I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
- Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
- Jer 7:14therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
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