¹² When they fast, I am ^(A)not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer ^(B)burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather, I am going to ^(C)put an end to them by the ^(D)sword, famine, and plague.”

¹⁷ this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the ^(A)sword, famine, and plague; and I will make them like ^(B)rotten figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness. ¹⁸ I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague; and I will ^(C)make them an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a ^(D)curse and an object of horror and ^[a](E)hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations where I have driven them,

³⁶ “Now therefore the Lord God of Israel says the following concerning this city of which you say, ‘It has been ^(A)handed over to the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by plague’:

¹⁷ “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming ^[a]release, each one to his brother and each to his neighbor. Behold, I am ^(A)proclaiming a ^[b]release to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to the ^(B)sword, to the plague, and to the famine; and I will make you a ^(C)terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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!