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Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,
    A wolf from the desert plains[a] 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.
How[b] 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.
They were well-fed lusty horses,
    they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:6 Or “Arabah”
  2. Jeremiah 5:7 Literally “Why to this”