5. If you have raced with runnersand they have worn you out,how can you compete with horses?If you stumble in a peaceful land,what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
6. Even your brothers — your own father’s household —even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them,though they speak well of you.
7. I have abandoned My house; I have deserted My inheritance.I have given the love of My lifeinto the hands of her enemies.
8. My inheritance has acted toward Melike a lion in the forest.She has roared against Me.Therefore, I hate her.
9. Is My inheritance like a hyena to Me?Are birds of prey circling her?Go, gather all the wild animals; bring them to devour her.
10. Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard;they have trampled My plot of land. They have turned My desirable plotinto a desolate wasteland.
11. They have made it a desolation.It mourns, desolate, before Me.All the land is desolate,but no one takes it to heart.
12. Over all the barren heights in the wildernessthe destroyers have come,for the Lord has a sword that devoursfrom one end of the earth to the other.No one has peace.