5. I--I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts.
6. According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,
7. And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.
8. I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.
9. And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.
10. Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me [is] thy help, Where [is] thy king now--And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?'
11. I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.
12. Bound up [is] the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden [is] his sin,
13. Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He [is] a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.