9. Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey?Are the birds of prey against her all around?Go, assemble all the animals 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 portion a desolate wilderness.
11. They have made it a desolation.It mourns to me, being desolate.The whole land is made desolate,because no one cares.
12. Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness;for the sword of the Lord devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land.No flesh has peace.
13. They have sown wheat,and have reaped thorns.They have exhausted themselves,and profit nothing.You will be ashamed of your fruits,because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”
14. the Lord says, “Concerning all my evil neighbours, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from amongst them.
15. It will happen, that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16. It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
17. But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says the Lord.