⁷ And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.

⁷ How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house.

³ For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?