¹² If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.”^(A)

² If they ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ tell them: This is what the Lord says:

³ “I will ordain four kinds^[a] of judgment for them”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away,^(B) and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land^(C) to devour and destroy.

¹⁰ I will send the sword, famine, and plague^(A) against them until they have perished from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.”

¹⁷ This is what the Lord of Armies says: “I am about to send sword, famine, and plague against them,^(A) and I will make them like rotten figs that are inedible because they are so bad. ¹⁸ I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations^(B) where I have banished them.^(C)

¹² A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you;^(A) a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.^(B)

¹⁷ I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. They will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”^(A)

²¹ “For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send my four^(A) devastating judgments against Jerusalem—sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague—in order to wipe out both people and animals from it!