Is my inheritance like a hyena[a] to me?
Are birds of prey circling her?
Go, gather all the wild animals;(A)
bring them to devour her.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
they have trampled my plot of land.(B)
They have turned my desirable plot
into a desolate wasteland.
11 They have made it a desolation.
It mourns, desolate, before me.
All the land is desolate,
but no one takes it to heart.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:9 Hb obscure

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.(A)
10 Many shepherds(B) will ruin my vineyard
    and trample down my field;
they will turn my pleasant field
    into a desolate wasteland.(C)
11 It will be made a wasteland,(D)
    parched and desolate before me;(E)
the whole land will be laid waste
    because there is no one who cares.

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