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Jeremias 12:7

I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the land of her enemies.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Reliqui domum meam ; dimisi hæreditatem meam : dedi dilectam animam meam in manu inimicorum ejus.
Septuagint (Swete)
Ἐνκαταλέλοιπα τὸν οἶκόν μου, ἀφῆκα τὴν κληρονομίαν μου, ἔδωκα τὴν ἠγαπημένην ψυχήν μου εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν αὐτῆς.
Hebrew (WLC)
עָזַ֨בְתִּי֙ אֶת בֵּיתִ֔י נָטַ֖שְׁתִּי אֶת נַחֲלָתִ֑י נָתַ֛תִּי אֶת יְדִד֥וּת נַפְשִׁ֖י בְּכַ֥ף אֹיְבֶֽיהָ

Haydock's commentary

Soul; people, (Haydock) whose punishment was decreed. Say not, therefore, that the wicked always prosper.

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

The Fathers on this verse

Lactantius The Divine Institutes, Chap. XX. Of the departure of Jesus into Galilee after his resurrection; and of the two testaments, the old and the new

But all Scripture is divided into two Testaments. That which preceded the advent and passion of Christ, that is, the law and the prophets, is called the Old; but those things which were written after His resurrection are named the New Testament. The Jews make use of the Old, we of the New: but yet they are not discordant, for the New is the fulfilling of the Old, and in both there is the same testator, even Christ, who, having suffered death for us, made us heirs of His everlasting kingdom, the people of the Jews being deprived and disinherited. …

Lactantius The Divine Institutes, Chap. XLVIII. Of the disinheriting of the Jews, and the adoption of the Gentiles

Now that the Jews were disinherited, because they rejected Christ, and that we, who are of the Gentiles, were adopted into their place, is proved by the Scriptures. Jeremiah thus speaks: “I have forsaken mine house, I have given mine heritage into the hands of her enemies. Mine heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath given forth its voice against me: therefore have I hated it.” Also Malachi : “I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. …

The Apostolic Constitutions Book VI, Sec. II. History and Doctrines of Heresies

V. For those are most certainly to be avoided who blaspheme God. The greatest part of the ungodly, indeed, are ignorant of God; but these men, as fighters against God, are possessed with a wilful evil disposition, as with a disease. For from the wickedness of these heretics “pollution is gone out upon all the earth,” as says the prophet Jeremiah. For the wicked synagogue is now cast off by the Lord God, and His house is rejected by Him, as He somewhere speaks: “I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine inheritance.” And again, says Isaiah: “I will neglect my vineyard, and it shall not be pruned nor digged, and thorns shall spring up upon it, as upon a desert; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.” He has therefore “left His people as a tent in a vineyard, and as a garner in a fig or olive yard, and as a besieged city.” He has taken away from them the Holy Spiri …

Rufinus A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, Section 22

22. It is related that when Pilate would fain have released Him all the people cried out, “Crucify Him, Crucify Him!” This also the Prophet Jeremiah foretells, saying, in the person of the Lord Himself, “My inheritance is become to Me as a lion in the forest. He hath uttered his voice against Me, wherefore I have hated it. And therefore (saith He) I have forsaken and left My house.” And again in another place, “Against whom have ye opened your mouth, and against whom have ye let loose your tongues?” When He stood before His judge, it is written that “He held His peace.” Many Scriptures testify of this. …

The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).