5:6. Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened. 5:7. How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. 5:8. They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 5:9. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation? 5:10. Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's. 5:11. For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord. 5:12. They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine. 5:13. The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them. 5:14. Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them. 5:15. Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say. 5:16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant. 5:17. And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest. 5:18. Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction. 5:19. And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own. 5:20. Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying: 5:21. Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not. 5:22. Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it. 5:23. But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.