3. Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window.
4. “But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
5. I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.
6. When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.
7. So I will be like a lion to them, like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
8. Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open; like a lion I will devour them— a wild animal will tear them apart.
9. “You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.