Jeremiah 5:4-6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ Then I said, “These are only the poor,
    they have no sense;
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.
⁵ I will go to the great,
    and will speak to them;
for they know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke,
    they had burst the bonds.

⁶ Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them,
    a wolf from the desert shall destroy them.
A leopard is watching against their cities,
    every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces;
because their transgressions are many,
    their apostasies are great.