Jeremiah 5:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ Then I said, “These are only the poor,
    they have no sense;
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.
⁵ Let me go to the rich^[a]
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke,
    they had burst the bonds.

⁶ Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them,
    a wolf from the desert shall destroy them.
A leopard is watching against their cities;
    everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces—
because their transgressions are many,
    their apostasies are great.