¹⁴ And ^(A)I will dash them ^[a]one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says the Lord. “I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy, but will destroy them.” ’ ”

^20 (A)“The Lord would not spare him; for then ^(B)the anger of the Lord and ^(C)His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord ^(D)would blot out his name from under heaven.

⁷ And afterward,” says the Lord, ^(A)“I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. ^(B)He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’

⁹ And I will cause them to eat the ^(A)flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’

^10 (B)“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, ¹¹ and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(C)“Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be ^[a]made whole again; and they shall ^(D)bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury.

²¹ Therefore thus says the Lord:

¹² Now ^(A)brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.