¹⁴ Then the Lord said to me, “^(A)Out of the north the evil ^[a]will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁰ “Now it will happen that, when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘^(A)For what reason has the Lord declared all this great disaster against us? And what is our wrongdoing, or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’

¹⁵ “This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it, because they have ^(A)stiffened their necks so ^(B)as not to listen to My words.’”