6 Even your brothers — your own father’s household —even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them,though they speak well of you.
7 I have abandoned My house; I have deserted My inheritance.I have given the love of My lifeinto the hands of her enemies.
8 My inheritance has acted toward Melike a lion in the forest.She has roared against Me.Therefore, I hate her.
9 Is My inheritance like a hyena to Me?Are birds of prey circling her?Go, gather all the wild animals; bring them to devour her.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard;they have trampled My plot of land. They have turned My desirable plotinto a desolate wasteland.
11 They have made it a desolation.It mourns, desolate, before Me.All the land is desolate,but no one takes it to heart.
12 Over all the barren heights in the wildernessthe destroyers have come,for the Lord has a sword that devoursfrom one end of the earth to the other.No one has peace.