Text -- Jeremiah 12:8 (NET)

12:8 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.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 12:8

¹ tn See the note on the previous verse.

² tn Heb “have become to me like a lion.”

³ tn Heb “have given against me with her voice.”

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.