Jeremiah 5:4-6

New Catholic Bible

⁴ Then I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they tend to act foolishly.
For they do not know the way of the Lord
    or the ordinances of their God.
⁵ Therefore, I will go to their leaders
    and speak to them.
Surely they will know the way of the Lord
    and their responsibilities to their God.”
But those, too, had broken the yoke
    and torn away from their bonds.
⁶ Therefore, lions from the forest will tear them to pieces,
    and wolves from the desert will ravage them.
Leopards will be on the prowl around their cities;
    all those who depart from them
    will be torn to pieces
because of their many crimes
    and their apostasies
    without number.