¹⁵ “If I were to cause ^(A)vicious animals 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 animals, ¹⁶ though these three men were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not save either their sons or their daughters. ^(B)They alone would be saved, but the country would be desolate. ¹⁷ Or if I were to ^(C)bring a sword on that country and say, ‘A sword is to pass through the country,’ and I ^(D)eliminated human and animal life from it,