¹⁶ The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them^(A)—they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.”

⁴ They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface.^(A) They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.^(B)