³ Lord, don’t your eyes look for truth?
    You struck^[a] them, but they didn’t flinch.^[b]
You brought them to an end,
    but they refused to receive discipline.
They made their faces harder than stone,
    and they refused to repent.
⁴ Then I said, “These are only the poor,
    they’re foolish,
for they don’t know the Lord’s way,
    the requirement^[c] of their God.
⁵ Let me go to the leaders^[d] and speak to them.
    For they know the Lord’s way,
        the requirement^[e] of their God.”

“But they, all together, have broken the yoke
    and torn off the restraints.^[f]
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them,
    a wolf from the desert will devastate them.
A leopard is watching their towns,
    and everyone who goes out of them
        will be torn to pieces.
For their transgressions are many,
    and their apostasies numerous.