¹⁸ Because they infected the land, pouring out innocent blood and filling their hearts and homes with idols, I poured out My wrath upon them. ¹⁹ I scattered them among the nations and dispersed them through many lands. I judged them based on their lifestyles and actions. ²⁰ Whenever they settled among the nations of their exile, they defiled My sacred name. Everywhere they went people were saying, “These are the Eternal’s people, yet they have been forced out of His land.”