Jeremiah 12:8
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Hos 9:15 : 15 All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
- Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.
- Zech 11:8 : 8 And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
- Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
- Jer 51:38 : 38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
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- Jer 12:9-102 verses86%
9 My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.
10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
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7 I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
- Lam 3:9-113 verses75%
9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
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9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
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3 And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.
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8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
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38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.
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13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
- Job 19:18-192 verses71%
18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
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22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
- Joel 1:6-72 verses71%
6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
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12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
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13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
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11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
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6 My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.
- Job 19:13-142 verses71%
13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
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12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
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52 They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
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14 And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves;
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3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
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12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
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6 Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.
- Hos 13:7-82 verses70%
7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;
8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.
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12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
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19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.
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2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
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8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
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13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
- Job 30:10-112 verses69%
10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
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11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
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12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
- Job 19:8-92 verses69%
8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
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4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
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13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.
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14 This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.
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7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.
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38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
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3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
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10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,
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17 Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.
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10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.