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Jer. 12:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

I have forsakend mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the ηdearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Psa. 78:59‑60• ⁵⁹God heard and was wroth{HR}And greatly abhorred Israel.
⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,{HR}His tent he pitched among men, (Psa. 78:59‑60)

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have forsaken.

Jer. 11:15• 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. (Jer. 11:15)

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Jer. 51:5• ⁵For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. (Jer. 51:5)

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Isa. 2:6• ⁶For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and [full of] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of strangers. (Isa. 2:6)

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Psa. 78:59‑60• ⁵⁹God heard and was wroth{HR}And greatly abhorred Israel.
⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,{HR}His tent he pitched among men, (Psa. 78:59‑60)

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Hos. 9:15• 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. (Hos. 9:15)

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Joel 2:15• ¹⁵Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: (Joel 2:15)

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Joel 3:2• 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. (Joel 3:2)

I have given.

Jer. 7:14• 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. (Jer. 7:14)

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Lam. 2:1‑22• ¹How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with the cloud in his anger,{HR}And cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,{HR}And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.
²The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:{HR}He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;{HR}He hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
³He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:{HR}He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,{HR}And he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
⁴He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary,{HR}And slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He poured out his fury like fire.
⁵The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel,{HR}He hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds,{HR}And hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
⁶And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden:{HR}He hath destroyed his places of the assembly.{HR}Jehovah hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,{HR}And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
⁷The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,{HR}He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;{HR}They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast.
⁸Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:{HR}Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
⁹Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:{HR}Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles:{HR}The law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.
¹⁰The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence:{HR}They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth{HR}The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
¹¹Mine eyes do fill with tears, my bowels are troubled,{HR}My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;{HR}Because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
¹²They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine?{HR}When they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city,{HR}When their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
¹³What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee,{HR}O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee,{HR}O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
¹⁴Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:{HR}And they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity;{HR}But have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee;{HR}They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,{HR}Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:{HR}They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:{HR}Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
¹⁷Jehovah hath done that which he had devised;{HR}He hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:{HR}He hath thrown down and hath not pitied:{HR}And he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,{HR}He hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion,{HR}Let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest;{HR}Let not the apple of thine eye cease.
¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night:{HR}In the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord:{HR}Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
²⁰Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this.{HR}Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?{HR}Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
²¹The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:{HR}My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;{HR}Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
²²Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about,{HR}So that in the day of Jehovah's anger none escaped nor remained:{HR}Those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. (Lam. 2:1‑22)

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Ezek. 7:20‑21• ²⁰As 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.
²¹And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. (Ezek. 7:20‑21)

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Ezek. 24:21• ²¹Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; 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. (Ezek. 24:21)

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Luke 21:24• ²⁴And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)

dearly beloved.

Heb. love.

J. N. Darby Translation

I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage, I have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

W. Kelly Translation

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.