6 Your relatives, members of your own family –even they have betrayed you;they have raised a loud cry against you.Do not trust them,though they speak well of you.
7 ‘I will forsake my house,abandon my inheritance;I will give the one I loveinto the hands of her enemies.
8 My inheritance has become to melike a lion in the forest.She roars at me;therefore I hate her.
9 Has not my inheritance become to melike a speckled bird of preythat other birds of prey surround and attack?Go and gather all the wild beasts;bring them to devour.
10 Many shepherds will ruin my vineyardand trample down my field;they will turn my pleasant fieldinto a desolate wasteland.
11 It will be made a wasteland,parched and desolate before me;the whole land will be laid wastebecause there is no one who cares.
12 Over all the barren heights in the desertdestroyers will swarm,for the sword of the Lord will devourfrom one end of the land to the other;no one will be safe.