5 If you have raced with people and are worn out,how will you compete with horses?If you fall down in an open field,how will you survive in the forest along the Jordan?
6 Even your relatives, your very family,are planning to trap you.They are out to get you.So don’t trust them,even if they appear to be on your side.
7 I have abandoned my house;I have deserted my inheritance.I have given the one I loveinto the power of her enemies.
8 My inheritance has turned against melike a lion in the forest;she growls at me;therefore, I have rejected her.
9 My inheritance has becomelike a bird of prey,surrounded and attacked.Go, gather all the wild animals for the feast.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;they have trampled down my field;they have reduced my treasured fieldto a desolate wilderness.
11 They have devastated her;desolate, she cries out to me in distress:"The whole land is desolate,and no one seems to care."