⁶ Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the ^[a]evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against 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 can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had ^[b]fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses; ⁸ they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.