¹⁸ Son of man, tremble as you eat your bread, and shake with anxiety as you drink your water, ¹⁹ and you are to say to the people of that land: Thus says the Lord about those who live in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: They will eat their bread in fearfulness and drink their water in despair, for their land will be stripped of everything within it because of the violence of all those who live there. ²⁰ The inhabited cities will lie in ruins, and the land will be a desolate waste. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.