3 Therefore they shall be like the morning cloudAnd like the early dew that passes away,Like chaff blown off from a threshing floorAnd like smoke from a chimney.
4 “Yet I am the Lord your GodEver since the land of Egypt,And you shall know no God but Me;For there is no savior besides Me.
5 I knew you in the wilderness,In the land of great drought.
6 When they had pasture, they were filled;They were filled and their heart was exalted;Therefore they forgot Me.
7 “So I will be to them like a lion;Like a leopard by the road I will lurk;
8 I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs;I will tear open their rib cage,And there I will devour them like a lion.The wild beast shall tear them.
9 “O Israel, you are destroyed,But your help is from Me.