⁸ However, among the nations I will spare some of you who will manage to escape the sword and be scattered throughout foreign lands. ⁹ Those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where you were carried away as captives—how I crushed their adulterous hearts for having deserted me and by their wanton eyes for lusting after idols. Then they will loathe themselves for all the evils that they have done with their abominable practices. ¹⁰ And they will know that I, the Lord, was not uttering a vain warning when I threatened to inflict this disaster upon them.