⁹ Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague.^(A) But whoever goes out and surrenders^(B) to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives.^(C)

⁸ “‘“If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish^(A) that nation with the sword,^(B) famine^(C) and plague,^(D) declares the Lord, until I destroy it by his hand.

¹² A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds^(A) and pursue with drawn sword.^(B)

¹³ “Then my anger will cease and my wrath^(C) against them will subside, and I will be avenged.^(D) And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.^(E)

¹⁴ “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.^{(F) 15} You will be a reproach^(G) and a taunt, a warning^(H) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.^(I) I the Lord have spoken.^{(J) 16} When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.^{(K) 17} I will send famine and wild beasts^(L) against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed^(M) will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.^(N)”