⁹ “For surely I will command,
And will ^[a]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
^(A)Yet not the smallest ^[b]grain shall fall to the ground.
¹⁰ All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
^(B)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

¹⁰ Yet the fortified city will be ^(A)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
¹¹ When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For ^(B)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will ^(C)not have mercy on them,
And ^(D)He who formed them will show them no favor.

¹² And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of ^[b]the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be ^(E)gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.

^13 (F)So it shall be in that day:
^(G)The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of ^(H)Egypt,
And shall ^(I)worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

^4 (A)Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain ^(B)all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.