²⁷ “Thus you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “As I live,^[a] surely^[b] whoever is in the ruins, by the sword they will fall, and whoever is on the surface of the open field, I will give him to the animals^[c] to eat him, and whoever is in the stronghold and in the cave, they will die by the plague. ²⁸ And I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland, and the pride of its strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate with no one traveling through them.”’^{[d] 29} And they will know that I am Yahweh when I make my land a desolation and a wasteland, because of all of their detestable things that they have done.