Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, (and) their backslidings are increased.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in (their own) counsels (and) in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?