²¹ “‘If you remain hostile^(A) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,^(B) as your sins deserve. ²² I will send wild animals^(C) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few^(D) in number that your roads will be deserted.^(E)

²³ “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction^(F) but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁴ I myself will be hostile^(G) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. ²⁵ And I will bring the sword^(H) on you to avenge^(I) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague^(J) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. ²⁶ When I cut off your supply of bread,^(K) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

²⁷ “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me^(L) but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁸ then in my anger^(M) I will be hostile^(N) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.^{(O) 29} You will eat^(P) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.^{(Q) 30} I will destroy your high places,^(R) cut down your incense altars^(S) and pile your dead bodies^[a] on the lifeless forms of your idols,^(T) and I will abhor^(U) you. ³¹ I will turn your cities into ruins^(V) and lay waste^(W) your sanctuaries,^(X) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.^{(Y) 32} I myself will lay waste the land,^(Z) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.^{(AA) 33} I will scatter^(AB) you among the nations^(AC) and will draw out my sword^(AD) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,^(AE) and your cities will lie in ruins.^(AF)

³⁹ Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’^(A) sins they will waste away.^(B)

⁴⁰ “‘But if they will confess^(C) their sins^(D) and the sins of their ancestors^(E)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹ which made me hostile^(F) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^(G) are humbled^(H) and they pay^(I) for their sin, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(J) and my covenant with Isaac^(K) and my covenant with Abraham,^(L) and I will remember the land. ⁴³ For the land will be deserted^(M) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^(N) my laws and abhorred my decrees.^{(O) 44} Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,^(P) I will not reject them or abhor^(Q) them so as to destroy them completely,^(R) breaking my covenant^(S) with them. I am the Lord their God.