Jeremiah 12:7-9

New International Reader's Version

⁷ “I will turn my back on my people.
    I will desert my land.
I love the people of Judah.
    In spite of that, I will hand them over to their enemies.
⁸ My land has become to me
    like a lion in the forest.
It roars at me.
    So I hate it.
⁹ My own land has become like a spotted hawk.
    And other hawks surround it and attack it.
Come, all you wild animals!
    Gather together!
    Come together to eat up my land.