⁵ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.^{(A) 6} Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.^(B)

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even^[a] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.^(C)

⁸ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.^(D)

¹² A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds^(A) and pursue with drawn sword.^(B)

¹³ “Then my anger will cease and my wrath^(C) against them will subside, and I will be avenged.^(D) And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.^(E)

¹⁴ “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.^{(F) 15} You will be a reproach^(G) and a taunt, a warning^(H) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.^(I) I the Lord have spoken.^(J)