^8 (A)And I will make the land desolate, because ^(B)they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord God.”

^20 (A)I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon ^(B)and enter into judgment with him there ^(C)for the treachery he has committed against me.

^24 (A)But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? ^(B)None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for ^(C)the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.

²⁷ “Therefore, ^(A)son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by ^(B)dealing treacherously with me.

¹⁴ All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.