⁵⁶ Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”

⁶³ And it shall be, that just as the Lord ^(A)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord ^(B)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be ^(C)plucked^[a] from off the land which you go to possess.

^23 (A)But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. ²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles ^(B)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

²⁴ “Son of man, ^(A)they who inhabit those ^(B)ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ^(C)‘Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. ^(D)But we are many; the land has been given to us as a ^(E)possession.’

²⁵ “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ^(F)“You eat meat with blood, you ^(G)lift up your eyes toward your idols, and ^(H)shed blood. Should you then possess the ^(I)land? ²⁶ You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you ^(J)defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’

²⁷ “Say thus to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely ^(K)those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field ^(L)I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and ^(M)caves shall die of the pestilence. ^28 (N)For I will make the land most desolate, ^[a]her ^(O)arrogant strength shall cease, and ^(P)the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. ²⁹ Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.” ’

^17 (A)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who ^(B)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand. ^18 (C)And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon. ^19 (D)Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions. ²⁰ And ^(E)those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, ^(F)where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,

^15 (A)Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord will bring upon you ^(B)all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the Lord your God has given you. ^16 [a]When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the ^(C)anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”

²⁸ And the Lord ^(A)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

^23 (A)And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and ^(B)therefore I abhor them.

²⁸ lest ^(A)the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.