²⁰ even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not save either their son or their daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.”

²¹ For this is what the Lord God says: “How much more when ^(A)I send My four ^[a]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, vicious animals, and plague to eliminate human and animal life from it! ²² Yet, behold, ^[b]survivors will be left in it who will be brought out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they are going to come out to you, and you will ^(B)see their conduct and actions; then you will be ^(C)comforted for the disaster which I have brought against Jerusalem for everything which I have brought upon it.