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.
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