Jeremiah 12:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it.

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  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
  • Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I also cut off three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
  • Jer 51:38 : 38 They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

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    9My heritage is to Me like a speckled bird; the birds all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

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    7I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

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

    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

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

  • Job 16:9
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    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

  • Mal 1:3
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    3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.

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    8My enemies reproach me all day long; those who are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • Jer 25:38
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    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

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    22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

  • Joel 1:6-7
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    6For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

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  • Ps 17:12
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    12Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Job 19:11
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    11He has also kindled His wrath against me and counts me as one of His enemies.

  • Ps 120:6
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    6My soul has long dwelt with him who hates peace.

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    13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me.

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  • Job 31:12
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    12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

  • Ps 55:3
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  • Prov 5:12
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    12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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  • Hos 13:7-8
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