6. Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them, A wolf from the desert plains will devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities, everyone who goes out from there will be torn, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are numerous.
7. “How can I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me, and they have sworn by those who are not gods. But I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and flocked to the house of a prostitute.
8. They were well-fed lusty horses, they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor.
9. Because of these things shall I not punish?” declares Yahweh, “and on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge?
10. Go up through her vineyards and destroy, but you must not make complete destruction. Remove her branches, for they are not to Yahweh.