Jeremiah 5:5-7
Authorized (King James) Version
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;
for they have known the way of the Lord,
and the judgment of their God:
but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them,
and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them,
a leopard shall watch over their cities:
every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces:
because their transgressions are many,
and their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon thee for this?
thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods:
when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery,
and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.