5. I will go to the great menand will speak to them,for they have known the way of the Lordand the judgment of their God.”But these have altogether broken the yokeand burst the bonds.
6. Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them,and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them;a leopard will watch over their cities.Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces,because their transgressions are manyand their backslidings have increased.
7. How shall I pardon you for this?Your children have forsaken Meand sworn by those who are not gods.When I had fed them to the full,then they committed adulteryand assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8. They were as fed horses in the morning;everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9. Shall I not punish for these things? says the Lord,and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?