1You are righteous, LORD,
2You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root.
3But you, LORD, know me.
4How long will the land mourn,
5“If you have run with the footmen,
6For even your brothers, and the house of your father,
7“I have forsaken my house.
8My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest.
9Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey?
10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard.
11They have made it a desolation.
12Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness;
13They have sown wheat,
14The LORD says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the LORD lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
17But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says the LORD.