Jeremiah 12:9-11

The Voice

⁹     Have My own people become like colorful vultures?
        Are birds of prey circling all around them?^[a]
    Gather the wild beasts and bring them on to devour My beloved.
¹⁰     Many shepherds have already destroyed My vineyard;
        they have crushed My fields.
    My beautiful land of promise has turned into a barren wasteland.
¹¹     The very ground cries out to Me in this empty and forsaken land;
        the whole land is desolate, but no one seems to care.