¹³ “Son of man, if a country sins^(A) against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply^(B) and send famine upon it and kill its people and their animals,^(C)

¹⁶ He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off^(A) the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,^(B)

²⁶ When I cut off your supply of bread,^(A) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

⁸ I will make the land desolate^(A) because they have been unfaithful,^(B) declares the Sovereign Lord.”

²¹ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments^(A)—sword^(B) and famine^(C) and wild beasts and plague^(D)—to kill its men and their animals!^(E)

¹⁹ “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath^(A) on it through bloodshed,^(B) killing its people and their animals,^(C)

¹⁷ “Or if I bring a sword^(A) against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,^(B)

¹⁶ When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.^(A)

⁴³ Once more fields will be bought^(A) in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate^(B) waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’