5If you have run with footmen and they have wearied you, how will you contend with horses? And though in a land of peace you are secure, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?6For even your brothers and the house of your father, they also have dealt treacherously with you; they also have called after you loudly. Do not trust in them, for they speak to you words of peace.7I have forsaken my house; I have left my inheritance; I have given the beloved of my soul into the palm of her enemies.8My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the wood; she has given her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.9Is my inheritance a speckled bird of prey to me? Are the birds of prey around her? Go, gather all the wild animals of the field; come to devour.10Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion; they have given the portion of my desire to a wilderness of devastation.11She has been set to devastation; she mourns to me, devastated; all the land has been made desolate, for there is no man who takes it to heart.12Upon all the bareness in the wilderness spoilers have come, for a sword of the LORD eats from the end of the land and to the end of the land; there is no peace to all flesh.13They sowed wheat and thorns they reaped; they have been made weak; they do not gain, and they are ashamed from their produce, from the burning anger of the face of the LORD.14Thus says the LORD concerning all my neighboring ones, the bad ones who touch the inheritance which I caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I am uprooting them from their land, and the house of Judah I will uproot from their midst.15And it will be after I have uprooted them, I will return and have compassion on them, and I will return them, each man to his inheritance and each man to his land.16And it will be, if they will surely learn the way of my people, to swear by my name, 'As the LORD lives,' just as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built in the midst of my people.17And if they will not hear, then I will uproot that nation, uprooting and causing it to perish, declares the LORD.