³⁰ I then ^(A)will destroy your high places and cut down your ^(B)incense altars and give your corpses to lie on the corpses of your idols, for My soul shall loathe you. ³¹ And I will give your cities over as a ^(C)waste and will make your ^(D)sanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^(E)smell your soothing aromas. ³² And I will make ^(F)the land desolate, ^(G)so that your enemies who inhabit it will themselves feel desolate because of it. ³³ You, however, I ^(H)will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

²⁶ I ^(A)call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will ^(B)surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not prolong your days on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

⁴⁵ “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you ^(A)until you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

¹⁵ And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and ^[a](A)relented concerning the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough! Now relax your hand.” And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of ^[b]Ornan the Jebusite.