¹⁷ “So this is what the Lord says: You have not ·obeyed [listened to] me. You have not ·given freedom [proclaimed liberty/emancipation] to your fellow Hebrews, neither ·relatives [brothers] nor ·friends [neighbors]. But now I will ·give freedom [proclaim liberty/emancipation to you], says the Lord, to ·war [^Lthe sword], to ·terrible diseases [plague; pestilence], and to ·hunger [famine]. I will make you ·hated by [a horror to] all the kingdoms of the earth. ¹⁸ I will hand over the men who ·broke [transgressed] my ·agreement [covenant; treaty], who have not kept the ·promises [^Lterms of the covenant/treaty] they made before me. They cut a calf into two pieces before me and ·walked between [^Lpassed through] the pieces [^Can ancient oath ritual saying that if one broke the agreement they would die like the calf; Gen. 15:9–20]. ¹⁹ These people made the ·agreement [covenant; treaty] before me by ·walking between [^Lpassing through] the pieces of the calf: the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the ·officers of the court [or eunuchs], the priests, and all the people of the land. ²⁰ So I will hand them over to their enemies and to everyone who ·wants to kill them [^Lseeks their life]. Their ·bodies [corpses] will become food for the birds of the ·air [heavens] and for the wild animals of the earth.