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My people have turned against me
and roar at me like lions.
    That's why I hate them.

My people are like a hawk
surrounded and attacked
    by other hawks.[a]
Tell the wild animals
    to come and eat their fill.
10 My beautiful land is ruined
    like a field or a vineyard
trampled by shepherds
and stripped bare
    by their flocks.

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Footnotes

  1. 12.9 My people … other hawks: Or “My land has become a hyena's den with vultures circling above.”

My inheritance has become to me
    like a lion(A) in the forest.
She roars at me;
    therefore I hate her.(B)
Has not my inheritance become to me
    like a speckled bird of prey
    that other birds of prey surround and attack?
Go and gather all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.(C)
10 Many shepherds(D) will ruin my vineyard
    and trample down my field;
they will turn my pleasant field
    into a desolate wasteland.(E)

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