Jer 12:8 | NET2full | STEP | The people I call my own have turned on me like a lion in the forest . They have roared defiantly at me, so I will treat them as though I hate them.

Jeremiah 12:8

8 The people I call my own ^{▼▼tn See the note on the previous verse.} have turned on me
like a lion ^{▼▼tn Heb “have become to me like a lion.”} in the forest.
They have roared defiantly at me, ^{▼▼tn Heb “have given against me with her voice.”}
so I will treat them as though I hate them. ^{▼▼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.}