Jeremiah 12:8

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My inheritance has behaved toward melike a lion in the forest.She has roared against me.Therefore, I hate her.

Hebrew Names Version
My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated 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.

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

New American Standard Bible
"My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has roared against Me; Therefore I have come to hate her.

New Century Version
My people have become to me like a lion in the forest. They roar at me, so I hate them.

Amplified Bible
"My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has raised her voice and roared against Me; So I have come to [treat her as if I] hate her.

World English Bible
My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Mine heritage is vnto mee, as a lion in the forest: it crieth out against mee, therefore haue I hated it.

Legacy Standard Bible
My inheritance has become to MeLike a lion in the forest;She has given forth its voice against Me;Therefore I have come to hate her.

Berean Standard Bible
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

Contemporary English Version
My people have turned against me and roar at me like lions. That's why I hate them.

Complete Jewish Bible
For me, my heritage has become like a lion in the forest — she roared out against me; so now I hate her.

Darby Translation
My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath raised its voice against me: therefore have I hated it.

Easy-to-Read Version
My own people turned against me like a wild lion. They roared at me, so I turned away from them.

George Lamsa Translation
My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against me; therefore I have hated it.

Good News Translation
My chosen people have turned against me; like a lion in the forest they have roared at me, and so I hate them.

Lexham English Bible
My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore I hate her.

Literal Translation
My inheritance has become as a lion in the forest to Me; she gave out her voice against Me; on account of this I hated her.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Myne heretage is become vnto me, as a Lyon in the wod. It cried out vpon me, therfore haue I forsaken it.

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

Bible in Basic English
My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
My heritage is become unto Me as a lion in the forest; she hath uttered her voice against Me; therefore have I hated her.

King James Version (1611)
Mine heritage is vnto me as a lyon in the forrest: it cryeth out against me, therefore haue I hated it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Myne heritage is become vnto me as a lion in the wood: it cryed out vpon me, therfore haue I forsaken it.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My inheritance has become to me as a lion in a forest; she has uttered her voice against me; therefore have I hated her.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Myn eritage is maad as a lioun in the wode to me; it yaf vois ayens me, therfor Y hate it.

Update Bible Version
My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

Webster's Bible Translation
My heritage is to me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

New English Translation
The people I call my own have turned on me like a lion in the forest. They have roared defiantly at me. So I will treat them as though I hate them.

New King James Version
My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; It cries out against Me; Therefore I have hated it.

New Living Translation
My chosen people have roared at me like a lion of the forest, so I have treated them with contempt.

New Life Bible
My chosen nation has become to Me like a lion among the trees. She has raised her voice against Me, so I hate her.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mine inheritance, hath become to me as a lion in a jungle, - She hath given forth against me her voice, For this cause, have I hated her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.

Revised Standard Version
My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.

Young's Literal Translation
Mine inheritance hath been to Me as a lion in a forest, She gave forth against Me with her voice, Therefore I have hated her.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has roared against Me; Therefore I have come to hate her.

Contextual Overview

⁷"I will abandon the House of Israel, walk away from my beloved people. I will turn over those I most love to those who are her enemies. She's been, this one I held dear, like a snarling lion in the jungle, Growling and baring her teeth at me— and I can't take it anymore. Has this one I hold dear become a preening peacock? But isn't she under attack by vultures? Then invite all the hungry animals at large, invite them in for a free meal! Foreign, scavenging shepherds will loot and trample my fields, Turn my beautiful, well-cared-for fields into vacant lots of tin cans and thistles. They leave them littered with junk— a ruined land, a land in lament. The whole countryside is a wasteland, and no one will really care. ¹²"The barbarians will invade, swarm over hills and plains. The judgment sword of God will take its toll from one end of the land to the other. Nothing living will be safe. They will plant wheat and reap weeds. Nothing they do will work out. They will look at their meager crops and wring their hands. All this the result of God 's fierce anger!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

crieth out: or, yelleth, Heb. giveth out his voice, Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 51:38

therefore: Hosea 9:15, Amos 6:8, Zechariah 11:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:9 - therefore Psalms 11:5 - wicked Jeremiah 14:19 - hath Jeremiah 20:12 - let me Ezekiel 23:18 - then

Cross-References

Genesis 12:14
When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful. Pharaoh's princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with Pharaoh.

Genesis 12:16
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped God there, praying to the Eternal God. Abraham lived in Philistine country for a long time.

Joshua 7:2
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (The Ruin), which is near Beth Aven just east of Bethel. He instructed them, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 8:3
Joshua and all his soldiers got ready to march on Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, tough, seasoned fighters, and sent them off at night with these orders: "Look sharp now. Lie in ambush behind the city. Get as close as you can. Stay alert. I and the troops with me will approach the city head-on. When they come out to meet us just as before, we'll turn and run. They'll come after us, leaving the city. As we are off and running, they'll say, ‘They're running away just like the first time.' That's your signal to spring from your ambush and take the city. God , your God, will hand it to you on a platter. Once you have the city, burn it down. God says it, you do it. Go to it. I've given you your orders."

Nehemiah 11:31
The Benjaminites from Geba lived in: Micmash Aijah Bethel and its suburbs Anathoth Nob and Ananiah Hazor Ramah and Gittaim Hadid, Zeboim, and Neballat Lod and Ono and the Valley of the Craftsmen. Also some of the Levitical groups of Judah were assigned to Benjamin.

Isaiah 10:28
You Who Legislate Evil Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims— Laws that make misery for the poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, Exploiting defenseless widows, taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you? What good will your money do you? A sorry sight you'll be then, huddled with the prisoners, or just some corpses stacked in the street. Even after all this, God is still angry, his fist still raised, ready to hit them again. "Doom to Assyria, weapon of my anger. My wrath is a cudgel in his hands! I send him against a godless nation, against the people I'm angry with. I command him to strip them clean, rob them blind, and then push their faces in the mud and leave them. But Assyria has another agenda; he has something else in mind. He's out to destroy utterly, to stamp out as many nations as he can. Assyria says, ‘Aren't my commanders all kings? Can't they do whatever they like? Didn't I destroy Calno as well as Carchemish? Hamath as well as Arpad? Level Samaria as I did Damascus? I've eliminated kingdoms full of gods far more impressive than anything in Jerusalem and Samaria. So what's to keep me from destroying Jerusalem in the same way I destroyed Samaria and all her god-idols?'" When the Master has finished dealing with Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he'll say, "Now it's Assyria's turn. I'll punish the bragging arrogance of the king of Assyria, his high and mighty posturing, the way he goes around saying, "‘I've done all this by myself. I know more than anyone. I've wiped out the boundaries of whole countries. I've walked in and taken anything I wanted. I charged in like a bull and toppled their kings from their thrones. I reached out my hand and took all that they treasured as easily as a boy taking a bird's eggs from a nest. Like a farmer gathering eggs from the henhouse, I gathered the world in my basket, And no one so much as fluttered a wing or squawked or even chirped.'" Does an ax take over from the one who swings it? Does a saw act more important than the sawyer? As if a shovel did its shoveling by using a ditch digger! As if a hammer used the carpenter to pound nails! Therefore the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will send a debilitating disease on his robust Assyrian fighters. Under the canopy of God's bright glory a fierce fire will break out. Israel's Light will burst into a conflagration. The Holy will explode into a firestorm, And in one day burn to cinders every last Assyrian thornbush. God will destroy the splendid trees and lush gardens. The Assyrian body and soul will waste away to nothing like a disease-ridden invalid. A child could count what's left of the trees on the fingers of his two hands. And on that Day also, what's left of Israel, the ragtag survivors of Jacob, will no longer be fascinated by abusive, battering Assyria. They'll lean on God , The Holy—yes, truly. The ragtag remnant—what's left of Jacob—will come back to the Strong God. Your people Israel were once like the sand on the seashore, but only a scattered few will return. Destruction is ordered, brimming over with righteousness. For the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will finish here what he started all over the globe. Therefore the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, says: "My dear, dear people who live in Zion, don't be terrorized by the Assyrians when they beat you with clubs and threaten you with rods like the Egyptians once did. In just a short time my anger against you will be spent and I'll turn my destroying anger on them. I, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will go after them with a cat-o'-nine-tails and finish them off decisively—as Gideon downed Midian at the rock Oreb, as Moses turned the tables on Egypt. On that day, Assyria will be pulled off your back, and the yoke of slavery lifted from your neck." Assyria's on the move: up from Rimmon, on to Aiath, through Migron, with a bivouac at Micmash. They've crossed the pass, set camp at Geba for the night. Ramah trembles with fright. Gibeah of Saul has run off. Cry for help, daughter of Gallim! Listen to her, Laishah! Do something, Anathoth! Madmenah takes to the hills. The people of Gebim flee in panic. The enemy's soon at Nob—nearly there! In sight of the city he shakes his fist At the mount of dear daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. But now watch this: The Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, swings his ax and lops the branches, Chops down the giant trees, lays flat the towering forest-on-the-march. His ax will make toothpicks of that forest, that Lebanon-like army reduced to kindling.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest,.... Which roars, and terrifies passengers from going that way; and which rends and tears in pieces all it meets with. This expresses the clamours of these people against God and his providences, and their rage, fierceness, and cruelty, against his prophets, sent in his name.

It crieth out against me; this is to be understood not of the cry of the oppressed through violence, for this is a cry to God, and not against him; or of idolaters to idols, as Baal's prophets to him, in the time of their service; which senses are mentioned by Kimchi: but either of their charging God with inequality and injustice, in the ways of his providence; or their blaspheming his name, and speaking ill of his ministry

Therefore have I hated it; which he showed by leaving his house, forsaking his heritage, and delivering his people into the hands of their enemies; the reason of which was not in himself, but them; the fault was not his, but theirs; this is all to be understood of the change in the dispensation of the divine Providence towards them; otherwise the love of God to his chosen in Christ is unchangeable; it is never turned into hatred, but remains invariably the same, as it did to those, among these people; who belonged to the election of grace; for, as the love before expressed to this people in general only respects external favours and privileges, which they were indulged with above all people; so this hatred of them signifies the taking away of such favours, and leaving them to become a prey to their enemies.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yahweh shows that the downfall of the nation was occasioned by no want of love on His part, but by the nation’s conduct.

Left - More correctly, cast away.

Jeremiah 12:8

Judah has not merely refused obedience, but become intractable and fierce, like an untamed lion. It has roared against God with open blasphemy. As His favor is life, so is His hatred death, i. e., Jerusalem’s punishment shall be as if inflicted by one that hated her.

Jeremiah 12:9

Rather, “Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird? Are the birds upon her round about? Come, assemble all the wild beasts: bring them to devour her.” By “a speckled” or parti-colored “bird” is probably meant some kind of vulture.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 12:8. Mine heritage is unto me as a lion — The people are enraged against me; they roar like a furious lion against their God. They have proceeded to the most open acts of the most flagrant iniquity.