Jeremiah 12:8
ContextNETBible | The people I call my own 1 have turned on me like a lion 2 in the forest. They have roared defiantly 3 at me. So I will treat them as though I hate them. 4 |
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NET © Notes |
1 tn See the note on the previous verse. 2 tn Heb “have become to me like a lion.” 3 tn Heb “have given against me with her voice.” 4 tn Or “so I will reject her.” The word “hate” is sometimes used in a figurative way to refer to being neglected, i.e., treated as though unloved. In these contexts it does not have the same emotive connotations that a typical modern reader would associate with hate. See Gen 29:31, 33 and E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 556. |