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Jeremiah 12:8
Jeremiah 12:8 is verse 8 of Jeremiah chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
King James Version
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
World English Bible
My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.
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Jeremiah 12:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
7 I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
8 My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
9 Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
Hosea 9:15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
Amos 6:8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
Zechariah 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.