⁷ Then afterwards,” declares the Lord, “^(A)I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive 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 foes 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 spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’

⁸ ‘But like the ^(A)bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will ^[a]abandon ^(B)Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the ^(C)remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of ^(D)Egypt. ⁹ I will ^(E)make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a ^(F)reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a ^(G)curse in all places where I will scatter them. ¹⁰ I will send the ^(H)sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”

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 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)Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has ^(E)gone away from you.