³ and say to the land of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Behold, ^(A)I am against you; and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you the ^(B)righteous and the wicked. ⁴ Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go out from its sheath against ^[a](C)humanity from south to north. ⁵ So ^[b]humanity will know that I, the Lord, have drawn My sword from its sheath. It will ^(D)not return to its sheath again.”’