¹⁷ Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, “Let a sword pass through the land,” and I cut off humans and animals from it,^(A)

¹⁹ Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off humans and animals from it,^(A)

²¹ Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!^(A)

¹⁶ when I loose against you^[a] my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.^[b](A)

¹⁴ I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their settlements, from the wilderness to Riblah.^[a] Then they shall know that I am the Lord.^(A)

⁸ And I will make the land desolate because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God.^(A)