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For even your relatives, and the house of your father,
    even they have dealt treacherously with you,
even they call loudly[a] after you.
    You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.
I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance.
    I have given the beloved one of my heart[b] into the hand of her enemies.
My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest.
    She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore[c] I hate her.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:6 Literally “full”
  2. Jeremiah 12:7 Literally “soul”
  3. Jeremiah 12:8 Literally “unto thus”