Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.