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The people I call my own[a] have turned on me
like a lion[b] in the forest.
They have roared defiantly at me,[c]
so I will treat them as though I hate them.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:8 tn See the note on the previous verse.
  2. Jeremiah 12:8 tn Heb “have become to me like a lion.”
  3. Jeremiah 12:8 tn Heb “have given against me with her voice.”
  4. Jeremiah 12:8 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.