5. It was I who knew you in the wilderness,in the land of drought;
6. but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
7. So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8. I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs;I will tear open their breast,and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
9. He destroys you, O Israel,for you are against me, against your helper.
10. Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?Where are all your rulers—those of whom you said,“Give me a king and princes”?
11. I gave you a king in my anger,and I took him away in my wrath.
12. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;his sin is kept in store.