Jeremiah 12:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickednesse is in Gilgal: for there doe I hate them: for the wickednesse of their inuentions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will loue them no more: all their princes are rebels.
  • Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord God hath sworne by himselfe, saith the Lord God of hostes, I abhorre the excellencie of Iaakob, & hate his palaces: therefore wil I deliuer vp the citie with all that is therein.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 Three shepherdes also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule lothed them, and their soule abhorred me.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 The lions roared vpon him & yelled, and they haue made his land waste: his cities are burnt without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 51:38 : 38 They shal rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

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    9 Shall mine heritage bee vnto mee, as a bird of diuers colours? are not the birdes about her, saying, Come, assemble all ye beastes of the fielde, come to eate her?

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  • Jer 12:7
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    7 I haue forsaken mine house: I haue left mine heritage: I haue giuen the dearely beloued of my soule into the hands of her enemies.

  • Lam 3:9-11
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    9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.

    10 He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.

    11 He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • Job 16:9
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    9 His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.

  • Mal 1:3
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    3 And I hated Esau, and made his mountaines wast, & his heritage a wildernes for dragons.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8 Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.

  • Jer 25:38
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    38 He hath forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, & because of ye wrath of his indignatio.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.

    19 All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.

  • Ps 139:22
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    22 I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

  • Joel 1:6-7
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    6 Yea, a nation commeth vpon my lande, mightie, & without nomber, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the iawes of a great lyon.

    7 He maketh my vine waste, & pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: ye branches therof are made white.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13 From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

  • Job 19:11
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    11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.

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    6 My soule hath too long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

  • Job 19:13-14
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    13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.

    14 My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.

  • Job 31:12
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    12 Yea, this is a fire that shal deuoure to destructio, & which shal roote out al mine increase,

  • Lam 3:52
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    52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliuer them into the hande of their enemies, and they shalbe robbed and spoyled of all their aduersaries,

  • Ps 55:3
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    3 For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.

  • Prov 5:12
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    12 And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

  • Ps 16:6
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    6 The lines are fallen vnto me in pleasant places: yea, I haue a faire heritage.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7 And I wil be vnto them as a very lyon, and as a leopard in the way of Asshur.

    8 I will meete them, as a beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I will breake the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 Surely mine enemie did not defame mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I would haue hid me from him.

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    19 Beholde mine enemies, for they are manie, and they hate me with cruell hatred.

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    2 Least he deuoure my soule like a lion, and teare it in pieces, while there is none to helpe.

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    8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.

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    13 His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.

  • Job 30:10-11
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    10 They abhorre me, & flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.

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  • Ps 31:11
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    11 I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and a feare to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the streete, fled from me.

  • Nah 2:12
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    12 The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.

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    8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

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    4 And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.

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    14 Thus sayeth the Lord against all mine euill neighbours, that touch the inheritance, which I haue caused my people Israel to inherite, Beholde, I will plucke them out of their lande, and plucke out the house of Iudah from among them.

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    7 Mine eye is dimmed for despight, and sunke in because of all mine enemies.

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    38 If my lande cry against me, or the furrowes thereof complayne together,

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    3 O my mountaine in the fielde, I will giue thy substance, and all thy treasures to be spoyled, for the sinne of thy high places throughout all thy borders.

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    17 Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.

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