Jeremiah 12:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Myne heritage is become vnto me as a lion in the wood: it cryed out vpon me, therfore haue I forsaken it.

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  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickednesse is done at Gilgall, there do I abhorre them: for the vngratiousnesse of their owne inuentions I wyll driue them out of my house, I wyll loue them no more, for all their princes are vnfaithfull.
  • Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lorde God hath sworne by hym selfe, sayth the Lorde God of hoastes: I abhorre the excellencie of Iacob, and hate his palaces, therfore will I deliuer vp the citie, with all that is therin.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 Three shepheardes I put out of office in one moneth, for I might not away with them: neither had they any delight in me.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 They rore and crye vpon him as lions, they haue made his lande waste: his cities are so burnt vp, that there is no man dwellyng in them:
  • Jer 51:38 : 38 They shall rose together lyke lions, and as the young lions when they be angry, so shall they bende them selues.

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    9He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.

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  • Jer 25:38
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  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.

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    22Yea I hate them from the bottome of myne heart: euen as though they were myne enemies.

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    13He hath put my brethren farre away from me, and myne acquaintaunce are also become straungers vnto me.

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