¹⁵ “If I were to cause ^(A)wild beasts to pass through the land and they ^[a]depopulated it, and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts, ¹⁶ though these three men were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. ^(B)They alone would be delivered, but the country would be desolate. ¹⁷ Or if I should ^(C)bring a sword on that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass through the country and ^(D)cut off man and beast from it,’