Jeremiah 12:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁸ Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ My heritage has become to Me like a lion in the forest; she has uttered her voice against Me; therefore I have [treated her as if I] hated her.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

Common English Bible

⁸ My inheritance has turned against me like a lion in the forest; she growls at me; therefore, I have rejected her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ My inheritance has become for me like a lion in the forest. It has uttered a voice against me, therefore, I have hated it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: is hath cried out against me. Therefore have I hated it.

Jeremiah 12:8 Cross References

Isaiah 59:13

in transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:38

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

Ezekiel 23:18

So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

Hosea 9:15

All 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.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

Micah 2:8

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

Zechariah 11:8

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.