²⁸ Say to them, ‘^(A)As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as ^(B)you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you; ^29 (C)your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all ^(D)your ^[a]numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me. ³⁰ Surely you shall not come into the land in which I ^[b]swore to settle you, ^(E)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. ^31 (F)Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. ^32 (G)But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. ³³ Your sons shall be shepherds for ^(H)forty years in the wilderness, and they will ^[c]suffer for your ^[d]unfaithfulness, until your corpses ^[e]lie in the wilderness. ³⁴ According to the ^(I)number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your ^[f]guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.

Judgment on Assyria

²⁴ The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, ^(A)just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

¹⁰ Then they will know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain ^[a]that I would inflict this disaster on them.”’

²⁸ Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “None of My words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,”’” declares the Lord God.