John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 12:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I have forsaken my house, etc.] 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, (<402338>Matthew 23:38) and when that voice was heard in it, a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, as Josephusf242 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 <053209>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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