³ O Yahweh, do not your eyes look for honesty?
    You have struck them, but they felt no pain,
you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline.
    They have hardened their faces more than rock,
    they have refused to turn back.
⁴ Then I said, “They are just simple people,
    they are foolish,
for they know not the way of Yahweh,
    the law^[a] of their God.
⁵ Let me go to the great,
    and let me speak with them,
for they know the way of Yahweh,
    the law^[b] of their God.”
However, they together have broken the yoke,
    they have torn to pieces the bonds.
⁶ Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,
    A wolf from the desert plains^[c] will devastate them.
A leopard is watching their cities,
    everyone who goes out from there will be torn,
because their transgressions are many,
    their apostasies are numerous.