9. My heritage is to Meas a speckled vulture;the vultures all around are against her.Come, assemble all the beasts of the field,bring them to devour.
10. Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard;they have trodden My portion under foot;they have made My pleasant portiona desolate wilderness.
11. They have made it desolate,and being desolate, it mourns to Me.The whole land has been made desolate,because no man lays it to heart.
12. The destroyers have comeupon all high places through the wilderness,for the sword of the Lord shall devourfrom the one end of the land even to the other end of the land.No one shall have peace.
13. They have sown wheat, but reap thorns;they have strained themselves, but shall not profit.And they shall be ashamed of your harvestbecause of the fierce anger of the Lord.
14. Thus says the Lord: Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
15. It shall come to pass that after I have plucked them out, I will again have compassion on them, and will bring them back, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16. It shall come to pass if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, “As the Lord lives,” as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of My people.
17. But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says the Lord.