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Jer 12:9

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Mine.

Or rather, as the learned Bochart renders, "Is then my heritage (people) to me as a fierce hy�a? Is there a wild beast all around upon her?" i.e., the land of Canaan.

The hy�a is a kind of wolf, a little bigger than a mastiff; colour grey, streaked with black: it is of a solitary and savage disposition. speckled bird. or, a bird having talons. the birds.

Jer 2:15; 2Kgs 24:2; Ezek 16:36; Ezek 16:37; Ezek 23:22-25; Rev 17:16

come ye.

Jer 7:33; Isa 56:9; Ezek 39:17-20; Rev 19:17; Rev 19:18

come. or, cause them to come.