⁴ “They will ^(A)die of deadly diseases; they ^(B)will not be lamented or buried; they will be as ^(C)dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the ^(D)birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth.”

⁷ So now, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you ^(A)doing great evil against yourselves, so as to ^(B)cut off from you man and woman, infant and nursing baby, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,