Jeremiah 12:8

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 

My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She roars at me; therefore I hate her.

"My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has roared against Me; Therefore I have come to hate her.

My chosen people have roared at me like a lion of the forest, so I have treated them as though I hated them.

She's been, this one I held dear, like a snarling lion in the jungle, Growling and baring her teeth at me--and I can't take it anymore.

My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.

My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me—therefore I hate her.

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

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 

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.