²⁴ They will be starved by famines
    and ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics.
I will send vicious animals against them
    along with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground.
²⁵ Foreign wars will kill off their children,
    and even at home there will be horrors.
        Young men and young women alike will die
            as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.
²⁶ I said that I would cut them in pieces^[a]
    and erase everyone’s memory of them.