4 Then I said, “They are just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.
5 Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.” However, they together have broken the yoke, they have torn to pieces the bonds.
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them, A wolf from the desert plains will devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities, everyone who goes out from there will be torn, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are numerous.
7 “How can I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me, and they have sworn by those who are not gods. But I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and flocked to the house of a prostitute.
8 They were well-fed lusty horses, they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor.
9 Because of these things shall I not punish?” declares Yahweh, “and on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge?
10 Go up through her vineyards and destroy, but you must not make complete destruction. Remove her branches, for they are not to Yahweh.