For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

I drew them with cords of compassion, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke from their jaws, and I laid food before them.

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the fat of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.