³⁹ Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who^[a] don’t know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

Consequences of Apostasy

⁸ As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“because My flock has become prey and food for every wild animal since they lack a shepherd, for My shepherds do not search for My flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than My flock,

⁴ therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder^(A) and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.