Yeremia 12:8
Konteks12:8 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
Yeremia 19:12
Konteks19:12 I, the Lord, say: 5 ‘That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.
[12:8] 1 tn See the note on the previous verse.
[12:8] 2 tn Heb “have become to me like a lion.”
[12:8] 3 tn Heb “have given against me with her voice.”
[12:8] 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.
[19:12] 5 tn This phrase (Heb “Oracle of the