Jeremiah 5:4-6

Modern English Version

⁴ Therefore I said, “Surely these are the poor.
    They are foolish;
for they know not the way of the Lord
    or the judgment of their God.
⁵ I will go to the great men
    and will speak to them,
for they have known the way of the Lord
    and the judgment of their God.”
But these have altogether broken the yoke
    and burst the bonds.
⁶ Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them,
    and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them;
a leopard will watch over their cities.
    Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many
    and their backslidings have increased.