9 Is my heritage to me like a hyena’s lair?Are the birds of prey against her all around?Go, assemble all the wild beasts;bring them to devour.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion;they have made my pleasant portiona desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it a desolation;desolate, it mourns to me.The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.
12 Upon all the bare heights in the desertdestroyers have come,for the sword of the Lord devoursfrom one end of the land to the other;no flesh has peace.
13 They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
14 Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15 And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.