6 Even your own brothers and members of your own familyare making plans against you.They are crying out against you.Don’t trust them,even when they say nice things to you!
7 “I have left Israel;I have left my people.I have given the people I loveover to their enemies.
8 My people have become to melike a lion in the forest.They roar at me,so I hate them.
9 My people have become to melike a speckled bird attacked on all sides by hawks.Go, gather the wild animals.Bring them to get something to eat.
10 Many shepherds have ruined my vineyardsand trampled the plants in my field.They have turned my beautiful fieldinto an empty desert.
11 They have turned my field into a desertthat is wilted and dead.The whole country is an empty desert,because no one who lives there cares.
12 Many soldiers have marched over those barren hills.The Lord is using the armies to punish that landfrom one end to the other.No one is safe.