Jeremiah 12:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ My chosen people have turned against me;
    like a lion in the forest
    they have roared at me,
    and so I hate them.
⁹ My chosen people are like a bird
    attacked from all sides by hawks.
Call the wild animals
    to come and join in the feast!
¹⁰ Many foreign rulers have destroyed my vineyard;
    they have trampled down my fields;
    they have turned my lovely land into a desert.