¹² Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, ^(A)and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them ^(B)by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

¹⁰ And I will send ^(A)sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”

¹⁷ ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, behold, I am sending on them ^(A)sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like ^(B)vile figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten. ¹⁸ I will pursue them with ^(C)sword, famine, and pestilence, ^(D)and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, ^(E)to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations ^(F)where I have driven them,

¹⁷ I will send famine and ^(A)wild beasts against you, ^(B)and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and ^(C)blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”

³ and say, ^(A)You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to ^(B)the mountains and ^(C)the hills, to ^(D)the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, ^(E)and I will destroy your high places.

¹⁷ “Or ^(A)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, ^(B)and I cut off from it man and beast,

⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast,

^2 (A)“Son of man, speak to ^(B)your people and say to them, If ^(C)I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their ^(D)watchman,