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4-7 All your cities will be smashed and burned, and the idol altars abandoned. Your gods will be shattered; the bones of their worshipers will lie scattered among the altars. Then at last you will know I am the Lord.

“‘But I will let a few of my people escape—to be scattered among the nations of the world. Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me, for I will take away their adulterous hearts—their love of idols—and I will blind their lecherous eyes that long for other gods. Then at last they will loathe themselves for all this wickedness.

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Your people will fall slain(A) among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(B)

“‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape(C) the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.(D) Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember(E) me—how I have been grieved(F) by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols.(G) They will loathe themselves for the evil(H) they have done and for all their detestable practices.(I)

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