⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)This is Jerusalem. I have set her ^(B)in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. ⁶ And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness ^(C)more than the nations, and against my statutes more than ^(D)the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. ⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are ^(E)more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, ^(F)and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, ^(G)and have not^[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, ⁸ therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, ^(H)am against you. ^(I)And I will execute judgments^[b] in your midst ^(J)in the sight of the nations. ⁹ And because of all your abominations I will do with you ^(K)what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. ¹⁰ Therefore ^(L)fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. ^(M)And I will execute judgments on you, ^(N)and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. ¹¹ Therefore, ^(O)as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, ^(P)because you have defiled my sanctuary ^(Q)with all your detestable things and with all your ^(R)abominations, ^(S)therefore I will withdraw.^{[c] (T)}My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. ^12 (U)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; ^(V)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; ^(W)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

^13 (X)“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that ^(Y)I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—^(Z)when I spend my fury upon them. ¹⁴ Moreover, I will make you ^(AA)a desolation and ^(AB)an object of reproach among ^(AC)the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. ¹⁵ You shall be^[d] a reproach and a taunt, a warning ^(AD)and a horror, to ^(AE)the nations all around you, ^(AF)when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and ^(AG)with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— ¹⁶ when I send against you^{[e] (AH)}the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon ^(AI)you and break your supply^[f] of bread. ¹⁷ I will send famine and ^(AJ)wild beasts against you, ^(AK)and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and ^(AL)blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”