Jeremiah 12:8-10

New International Reader's Version

⁸ My land has become to me
    like a lion in the forest.
It roars at me.
    So I hate it.
⁹ My own land has become like a spotted hawk.
    And other hawks surround it and attack it.
Come, all you wild animals!
    Gather together!
    Come together to eat up my land.
¹⁰ Many shepherds will destroy my vineyard.
    They will walk all over it.
They will turn my pleasant vineyard
    into a dry and empty land.