6. Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them,and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them;a leopard will watch over their cities.Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces,because their transgressions are manyand their backslidings have increased.
7. How shall I pardon you for this?Your children have forsaken Meand sworn by those who are not gods.When I had fed them to the full,then they committed adulteryand assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8. They were as fed horses in the morning;everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9. Shall I not punish for these things? says the Lord,and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?