In Context

6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.

7 |How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

8 They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

9 Shouldn't I punish them for these things?| says Yahweh; |and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 |Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,| says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 5:9 in Other Translations