²⁷ “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.^{(A) 28} I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains^(B) of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.^{(C) 29} Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolate^(D) waste because of all the detestable things they have done.’^(E)