7. The Lord says,“I have abandoned Israel;I have rejected my chosen nation.I have given the people I loveinto the power of their enemies.
8. My chosen people have turned against me;like a lion in the forestthey have roared at me,and so I hate them.
9. My chosen people are like a birdattacked from all sides by hawks.Call the wild animalsto come and join in the feast!
10. Many foreign rulers have destroyed my vineyard;they have trampled down my fields;they have turned my lovely land into a desert.
11. They have made it a wilderness;it lies desolate before me.The whole land has become a desert,and no one cares.
12. Across all the desert highlandspeople have come to plunder.I have sent war to destroy the entire land;no one can live in peace.
13. My people sowed wheat, but gathered weeds;they have worked hard, but got nothing for it.Because of my fierce angertheir crops have failed.”
14. The Lord says, “I have something to say about Israel's neighbours who have ruined the land I gave to my people Israel. I will take those wicked people away from their countries like an uprooted plant, and I will rescue Judah from them.
15. But after I have taken them away, I will have mercy on them; I will bring each nation back to its own land and to its own country.