Jeremiah 12:8

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My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest; she roars against me, therefore I hate her.

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  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
  • Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Hosts: 'I detest the pride of Jacob and hate his fortresses, so I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.'
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds. My soul was impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 Young lions have roared against him; they have raised their voices. They have turned his land into a desolation; his towns are burned and uninhabited.
  • Jer 51:38 : 38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

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  • Jer 12:9-10
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    9 Is my inheritance to me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey surrounding her? Come, gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

    10 Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion underfoot. They have turned my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

  • 7 I have abandoned my house, I have forsaken my inheritance; I have given the one I love into the hands of her enemies.

  • Lam 3:9-11
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    9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10 He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

    11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 9 His anger tears at me, and he hates me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

  • 3 but Esau I have hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild creatures of the desert.

  • 8 I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop.

  • 38 Like a lion leaving its lair, He has left His den, for their land has become a desolation because of the oppressor's wrath and the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 13 Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18 Even little children despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.

    19 All my close friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.

  • 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them as my enemies.

  • Joel 1:6-7
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    6 For a nation has invaded my land, strong and without number. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

    7 It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.

  • 12 They are like a lion eager to tear its prey, like a young lion crouching in hiding.

  • 13 From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • 11 His anger burns against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

  • 6 Too long has my soul dwelled with those who hate peace.

  • Job 19:13-14
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    13 He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me.

    14 My relatives have ceased to be close, and my close friends have forgotten me.

  • 12 It is a fire that burns to destruction, consuming all my harvest.

  • 52 My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.

  • 14 I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • 3 Pay attention to me and answer me. My thoughts are restless, and I am distraught.

  • 12 You will say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised correction!'

  • 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7 So I will become like a lion to them, like a leopard lying in wait by the path.

    8 I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear their hearts open. There I will devour them like a lion; a wild beast will rip them apart.

  • 12 Destruction is in its midst; oppression and deceit do not leave its streets.

  • 19 Look at my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with violent hatred.

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    2 O Lord, my God, I take refuge in You; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me.

  • 8 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me, and you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah.

  • 13 His archers surround me and pierce my kidneys without mercy; he pours my gall on the ground.

  • Job 30:10-11
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    10 They detest me and keep far from me; they do not refrain from spitting in my face.

    11 Because God has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they throw off all restraint in my presence.

  • 11 My life is consumed with grief and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.

  • 12 Where is the lion’s den, the lair of the young lions, where the lion went, the lioness went, and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them?

  • Job 19:8-9
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    8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

    9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • 4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • 13 Woe to them because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them, but they speak lies about me.

  • 14 This is what the LORD says: 'As for all my evil neighbors who harm the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.'

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    7 I am worn out from my groaning; all night long I drench my bed with tears and flood my couch with weeping.

  • 38 If my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

  • 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give away your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, along with your high places, because of the sin committed throughout your borders.

  • 10 For my enemies have spoken against me; those who watch my life conspire together.

  • 17 O Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue my soul from their devastations, my only life from fierce predators.

  • 10 I hear many whispering, 'Terror on every side! Report him! Let’s report him!' All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, 'Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.'