⁷ Then afterwards,” declares Yahweh, “^(A)I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who remain in this city from the pestilence, the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He ^(B)will not show pity on them nor spare nor have compassion.”’

⁸ ‘But like the ^(A)rotten figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says Yahweh—so I will give over ^(B)Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials and the ^(C)remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who inhabit the land of ^(D)Egypt. ⁹ I will ^(E)give them over to be a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a ^(F)reproach and a proverb, a byword and a ^(G)curse in all places where I will banish them. ¹⁰ I will send the ^(H)sword, the famine, and the pestilence upon them until they come to an end from being upon the land which I gave to them and their fathers.’”

¹⁹ the ^(A)officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf— ²⁰ And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who ^(B)seek their life. And their ^(C)dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. ^21 (D)And as for Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life and into the hand of the military force of the king of Babylon which has ^(E)gone away from you.