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

¹⁴ And ^(A)I will stretch out my hand against them and ^(B)make the land desolate and waste, ^(C)in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to ^(D)Riblah.^[a] Then ^(E)they will know that I am the Lord.”

^29 (A)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.

^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.

^13 (A)“Son of man, when a land sins against me ^(B)by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and ^(C)break its supply^[a] of bread and send famine upon it, and ^(D)cut off from it man and beast, ^14 (E)even if these three men, ^(F)Noah, ^(G)Daniel, and ^(H)Job, were in it, ^(I)they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.

^15 (J)“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, ^(K)and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, ¹⁶ even if these three men were in it, ^(L)as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but ^(M)the land would be desolate.

¹⁷ “Or ^(N)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, ^(O)and I cut off from it man and beast, ^18 (P)though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

¹⁹ “Or ^(Q)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, ²⁰ even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

²¹ “For thus says the Lord God: How much more ^(R)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, ^(S)sword, ^(T)famine, ^(U)wild beasts, and ^(V)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

¹⁰ Moreover, ^(A)I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^(B)the grinding of the millstones and ^(C)the light of the lamp. ^11 (D)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^(E)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^(F)seventy years.