¹⁷ “Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming ^[a]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am ^(A)proclaiming a ^[b]release to you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to the ^(B)sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a ^(C)terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. ¹⁸ And I will give the men who have ^(D)trespassed against My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant which they cut before Me, when they ^(E)cut the calf in two and passed between its parts— ¹⁹ the ^(F)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 ^(G)seek their life. And their ^(H)dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.