Jeremiah 12:8

New American Bible - revised edition

My heritage has become for me like a lion in the thicket; She has raised her voice against me, therefore she has incurred my hatred.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:13

Transgressing, and denying the Lord, turning back from following our God, Planning fraud and treachery, uttering lying words conceived in the heart.

Jeremiah 2:15

Against him lions roar, they raise their voices. They have turned his land into a waste; his cities are charred ruins, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:38

They roar like lions, growl like lion cubs.

Ezekiel 23:18

When her prostitution was discovered and her shame revealed, I recoiled from her as I had recoiled from her sister.

Hosea 9:15

All their misfortune began in Gilgal; yes, there I rejected them. Because of their wicked deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no longer; all their princes are rebels.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by his very self— an oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his strongholds, and I will hand over the city with everything in it;

Micah 2:8

But you rise up against my people as an enemy: you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful, From those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war.

Zechariah 11:8

In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.