Jeremiah 5:5-7

Lexham English Bible

⁵ Let me go to the great,
    and let me speak with them,
for they know the way of Yahweh,
    the law^[a] of their God.”
However, they together have broken the yoke,
    they have torn to pieces the bonds.
⁶ Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,
    A wolf from the desert plains^[b] 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^[c] 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.