Jeremiah 12:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Jeremiah 12:8 Cross References

Amos 6:8

The Lord GODhath 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.

Hosea 9:15

All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house: I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.

Zechariah 11:8

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Jeremiah 51:38

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

Jeremiah 2:15

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

Isaiah 59:13

in transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Ezekiel 23:18

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

Micah 2:8

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