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So lions will come out of the forest to attack them.
    Wolves will come from the desert to destroy them.
Leopards will wait outside their cities.
    They will kill anyone who goes outside.[a]
That will happen because the people have turned against the Lord.
    They have done many bad things.

The Lord said,

‘Jerusalem, I have to punish you.
    Your people have turned away from me.
    They have served gods that are not true gods.
I gave them everything that they needed.
    But they left me, like a wife who leaves her husband.
The men hurry to the houses of prostitutes.
They are like strong male horses.
    They cannot wait to have sex with another man's wife.’

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 The wild animals (lions, wolves and leopards) are probably pictures of Judah's enemies.