³⁸ They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),^[a] and the dogs^(A) licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared.

¹⁹ Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’^(A) Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood,^(B) dogs^(C) will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.^(A)

⁴ Do not be like your ancestors,^(A) to whom the earlier prophets^(B) proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways^(C) and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me,^(D) declares the Lord.^{(E) 5} Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever? ⁶ But did not my words^(F) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?^(G)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,^(H) just as he determined to do.’”^(I)

²¹ “Did not the Lord remember^(A) and call to mind the incense^(B) burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem^(C) by you and your ancestors,^(D) your kings and your officials and the people of the land?^{(E) 22} When the Lord could no longer endure^(F) your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse^(G) and a desolate waste^(H) without inhabitants, as it is today.^{(I) 23} Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed him or followed^(J) his law or his decrees^(K) or his stipulations, this disaster^(L) has come upon you, as you now see.”^(M)

¹⁴ “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth.^(A) You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise^(B) has been fulfilled; not one has failed.^{(C) 15} But just as all the good things^(D) the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things^(E) he has threatened, until the Lord your God has destroyed you^(F) from this good land he has given you.^(G)