8Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)The people of the Jews are here marked for ruin. I. God is here brought in falling out with them and leaving them desolate; and they could never have been undone if they had not provoked God to desert them. It is a terrible word that God here says (Jer. 12:7): I have forsaken my house —the temple, which had been his palace; they had polluted it, and so forced him out of it: I have left my heritage…
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