Mine heritage is unto me, as a [a]lion in the forest: it crieth out against me, therefore have I hated it.

Shall mine heritage be unto me, as a bird [b]of divers colors? are not the birds about her, saying, Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to eat her?

10 Many pastors have destroyed my [c]vineyard, and trodden my portion under foot: of my pleasant portion they have made a desolate wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:8 Ever ramping and raging against me and my Prophets.
  2. Jeremiah 12:9 Instead of bearing my livery, and wearing only my colors, they have change and diversity of colors of their idols and superstitions, therefore their enemies as thick as the fowls of the air shall come about them to destroy them.
  3. Jeremiah 12:10 He prophecieth of the destruction of Jerusalem, by the captains of Nebuchadnezzar, whom he calleth pastors.

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