²⁰ The Lord will send on you curses,^(A) confusion and rebuke^(B) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(C) because of the evil^(D) you have done in forsaking him.^[a]

⁸ “People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?’^{(A) 9} And the answer will be: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have worshiped and served other gods.^(B)’”

⁹ I will make them abhorrent^(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,^(B) a curse^[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish^(D) them.

⁸ I will set my face against^(A) them and make them an example^(B) and a byword.^(C) I will remove them from my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.^(D)