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 Now then thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you ^(A)doing great harm to yourselves, so as to ^(B)cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,