Jeremiah 12:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me— therefore I hate her.

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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

transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.

Jeremiah 2:15

The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:38

Like lions they shall roar together; they shall growl like lions’ whelps.

Ezekiel 23:18

When she carried on her prostitutions so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.

Hosea 9:15

Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal; there I came to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their officials are rebels.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.

Micah 2:8

But you rise up against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.