²⁸ “For thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hand of ^(A)those you hate, into the hand of those ^(B)from whom you alienated yourself.

Judgment on Jerusalem

²² “Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God:

³⁷ surely, therefore, ^(A)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

²⁰ I will ^(A)give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their ^(B)dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

⁷ And afterward,” says the Lord, ^(A)“I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. ^(B)He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’

⁸ “Now you shall say to this people, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, ^(C)I set before you the way of life and the way of death. ⁹ He who ^(D)remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and ^[a]defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall ^(E)live, and his life shall be as a prize to him. ¹⁰ For I have ^(F)set My face against this city for adversity and not for good,” says the Lord. ^(G)“It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall ^(H)burn it with fire.” ’

⁸ ‘And as the bad ^(A)figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the ^(B)residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and ^(C)those who dwell in the land of Egypt.