Jeremiah 12:8 BBE

⁶  For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

⁷  I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.

⁸  My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.

⁹  My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.

¹⁰  The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;