Jeremia 12:8

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Hon som är min arvedel blev mot mig såsom ett lejon i skogen; hon har höjt sin röst mot mig, därför har jag fattat hat till henne.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

crieth out: or, yelleth, Heb. giveth out his voice, Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 51:38

therefore: Hosea 9:15, Amos 6:8, Zechariah 11:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:9 - therefore Psalms 11:5 - wicked Jeremiah 14:19 - hath Jeremiah 20:12 - let me Ezekiel 23:18 - then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest,.... Which roars, and terrifies passengers from going that way; and which rends and tears in pieces all it meets with. This expresses the clamours of these people against God and his providences, and their rage, fierceness, and cruelty, against his prophets, sent in his name.

It crieth out against me; this is to be understood not of the cry of the oppressed through violence, for this is a cry to God, and not against him; or of idolaters to idols, as Baal's prophets to him, in the time of their service; which senses are mentioned by Kimchi: but either of their charging God with inequality and injustice, in the ways of his providence; or their blaspheming his name, and speaking ill of his ministry

Therefore have I hated it; which he showed by leaving his house, forsaking his heritage, and delivering his people into the hands of their enemies; the reason of which was not in himself, but them; the fault was not his, but theirs; this is all to be understood of the change in the dispensation of the divine Providence towards them; otherwise the love of God to his chosen in Christ is unchangeable; it is never turned into hatred, but remains invariably the same, as it did to those, among these people; who belonged to the election of grace; for, as the love before expressed to this people in general only respects external favours and privileges, which they were indulged with above all people; so this hatred of them signifies the taking away of such favours, and leaving them to become a prey to their enemies.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yahweh shows that the downfall of the nation was occasioned by no want of love on His part, but by the nation’s conduct.

Left - More correctly, cast away.

Jeremiah 12:8

Judah has not merely refused obedience, but become intractable and fierce, like an untamed lion. It has roared against God with open blasphemy. As His favor is life, so is His hatred death, i. e., Jerusalem’s punishment shall be as if inflicted by one that hated her.

Jeremiah 12:9

Rather, “Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird? Are the birds upon her round about? Come, assemble all the wild beasts: bring them to devour her.” By “a speckled” or parti-colored “bird” is probably meant some kind of vulture.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 12:8. Mine heritage is unto me as a lion — The people are enraged against me; they roar like a furious lion against their God. They have proceeded to the most open acts of the most flagrant iniquity.