6. These men are your own brothers. Members of your own family are making plans against you. People from your own family are shouting at you. Don’t trust them, even when they speak to you like friends.
7. “I have abandoned my house. I have left my own property. I have given Judah, the one I love, to her enemies.
8. My own people turned against me like a wild lion. They roared at me, so I turned away from them.
9. My own people have become like a dying animal surrounded by vultures. These birds are circling around her. Come on, wild animals. Come get something to eat.
10. Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard. They have trampled the plants in my field. They have made my beautiful field a desert.
11. They have turned it into an empty desert. It is dry and dead. The whole land has been ruined, and no one is left to care for it.