⁶ Therefore, a ^(A)curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer for their guilt. Therefore, the ^(B)inhabitants of the earth decrease in number, and few people are left.

⁹ Then the Lord stretched out His hand and ^(A)touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,

²⁹ “Is My word not like ^(A)fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a ^(B)hammer which shatters a rock?

⁶ But did My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, not ^[a](A)overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘^(B)Just as the Lord of armies planned to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’”’”