²⁹ If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies ^(A)he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

^6 (A)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded ^(B)my servants the prophets, did they not ^(C)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ^(D)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for ^(E)our ways and ^(F)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

¹⁰ And they shall know that I am the Lord. ^(A)I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”

¹³ Therefore ^(A)I will hurl you out of this land into ^(B)a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, ^(C)and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Though ^(B)Moses ^(C)and Samuel ^(D)stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! ² And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

⁶³ And as the Lord ^(A)took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will ^(B)take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

⁶⁴ “And the Lord ^(C)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^(D)there you shall serve other gods ^(E)of wood and stone, ^(F)which neither you nor your fathers have known.