Jeremiah 5:8 CPDV

⁶  For this reason, a lion from the forest has struck them down, a wolf toward evening has laid waste to them, a leopard lies in wait over their cities. All who go out from there will be taken. For their transgressions have been multiplied; their rebellions have been strengthened.

⁷  'Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot.

⁸  They have become like wild horses in heat; each one was neighing after his neighbor's wife.

⁹  Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? And shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation such as this?

¹⁰  Scale its walls and tear them down. But do not be willing to bring about its very end. Take away its plantings, for they are not the Lord's.