Jeremiah 12:7–13

⁷I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance.

I have given the beloved one of my heart^f into the hand of her enemies.

⁸My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest.

She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore^g I hate her.

⁹The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me,

the birds of prey^h are all around her.

Go, gather all of the animalsⁱ of the field,

bring them to come and devour.^j

¹⁰Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard,

they have trampled down my plot of land.

They have made my pleasant field^k

like the desert^l of desolation.

¹¹They have made it a desolation.

Desolate, it mourns to me.

All the land is made desolate,

but there is no person taking it to heart.

¹²Upon all the barren heights in the desert^m destroyers have come,

for the sword of Yahweh devours,

from one end of the land to the other end of the land,

there is no peace for all flesh.

¹³They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns.

They are exhausted, they do not profit.

And they will be ashamed of your produce,

because of the burning angerⁿ of Yahweh.”