¹⁸ I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will ^(A)give them over to be a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a ^(B)curse and an object of horror and of ^(C)hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have banished them, ¹⁹ because they have ^(D)not listened to My words,’ declares Yahweh, ‘which I sent to them by ^(E)My slaves the prophets, rising up early and sending; but you did not listen,’ declares Yahweh. ²⁰ You, therefore, hear the word of Yahweh, all you exiles, whom I have ^(F)sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.