¹² When they fast, I am ^(A)not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer ^(B)burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to ^(C)make an end of them by the ^(D)sword, famine and pestilence.”

¹⁷ thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the ^(A)sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like ^(B)split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness. ¹⁸ I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will ^(C)make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a ^(D)curse and a horror and a ^(E)hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

³⁶ “Now therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is ^(A)given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine and by pestilence.’

¹⁷ “Therefore thus says the Lord, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming ^[a]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am ^(A)proclaiming a ^[b]release to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to the ^(B)sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a ^(C)terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

²¹ For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when ^(A)I send My four ^[a]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!