¹⁷ “Or I might bring a war against that country. I might say, ‘Let a war be fought in that land,’ in this way destroying its people and its animals. ¹⁸ As surely as I live, says the Lord God, even if those three men were in the land, they could not save their sons or daughters. They could save only themselves.

¹⁹ “Or I might cause a disease to spread in that country. I might pour out my anger against it, destroying and killing people and animals.