5 “Let me go to the great men and speak to them, for they have known the way of יהוה, the right-ruling of their Elohim.” But these have altogether broken the yoke and torn off the bonds.
6 Therefore a lion from the forest shall smite them, a wolf of the deserts ravage them. A leopard is watching over their cities, whoever comes out of them is torn in pieces. For their transgressions have been many, their backslidings have been numerous.
7 “Why should I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those that are not mighty ones. When I had filled them up, they then committed adultery and they thronged to the house of a whore.
8 “They were like well-fed horses, every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
9 “Would I not punish them for this?” declares יהוה. “And would I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?
10 “Go up on her walls and destroy, but do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, for they do not belong to יהוה.
11 “For the house of Yisra’ĕl and the house of Yehuḏah have utterly betrayed Me,” declares יהוה.