² And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

¹³ Why will you and your people die^(A) by the sword, famine and plague^(B) with which the Lord has threatened any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

¹⁶ He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off^(A) the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,^(B)