Jeremiah 5:4-6

English Standard Version

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

⁶ Therefore ^(C)a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
    a ^(D)wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^(E)A leopard is watching their cities;
    everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
    their ^(F)apostasies are great.