Jeremiah 5:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.

⁵ I will go therefore to the great men, and I will speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

⁶ Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.