¹⁴ Then the Lord said to me, “^(A)Out of the north the evil ^[a]will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁰ “Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘^(A)For what reason has the Lord declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against the Lord our God?’

¹⁵ “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have ^(A)stiffened their necks so ^(B)as not to heed My words.’”