6 These men are your own brothers.Members of your own family are making plans against you.People from your own family are crying out against you.Don’t trust them,even when they speak to you like friends!
7 “I have left Israel.I have left my people.I have given the people I loveto their enemies.
8 My people have becomelike a lion in the forest to me.They roar at me.So I hate them.
9 My people have become to melike a speckled bird attacked by hawks.Go, gather the wild animals!Bring them to get something to eat.
10 Many shepherds will ruin my vineyards.They will walk on the plants in my field.They will turn my beautiful fieldinto an empty desert.
11 They will turn my field into a desert.It will be wilted and dead.The whole country is an empty desert.This is because no one who lives there cares.
12 Many soldiers will march over those barren hills.The Lord will use the armies to punish that land.People from one end of the land to the other will be punished.No one will be safe.