⁵ Indeed, if you run with others on foot,
    and they tire you out,
        how can you compete with horses?
You are secure^[a] in a land at peace,
    but how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?
⁶ Indeed, even your brothers and your father’s family
    conspire against you.
Even they cry out after you loudly.
    Don’t believe them, even though they speak friendly words to you.
⁷ I’ll forsake my house,
    I’ll abandon my inheritance.
I’ll give the beloved of my heart
    into the hand of her enemies.
⁸ My inheritance has become like a lion in the forest to me.
    She roars at me; therefore, I hate her.
⁹ Is my inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to me?
    Are the other^[b] birds of prey all around her coming against her?
Go, gather all the wild animals and
    bring them to devour it.
¹⁰ Many shepherds will destroy my vineyard.
    They’ll trample down my portion.
They’ll turn my pleasant portion
    into a desolate desert.
¹¹ They’ll make it into a desolate place,
    and, desolate, it will cry out in mourning to me.
The whole land will be desolate
    because no one takes it to heart.
¹² On all the barren heights in the desert
    destroyers will come.
Indeed, a sword of the Lord will devour from
    one end of the land to the other.
There will be no peace^[c] for any person.^[d]
13 They have sown wheat,
    but they have harvested thorns.
They have tired themselves out,
    but they don’t show a profit.
Now be disappointed about your harvest
    because of the fierce anger of the Lord.