8-10 “‘But I’ll let a few escape the killing as you are scattered through other lands and nations. In the foreign countries where they’re taken as prisoners of war, they’ll remember me. They’ll realize how devastated I was by their betrayals, by their voracious lust for gratifying themselves in their idolatries. They’ll be disgusted with their evil ways, disgusting to God in the way they’ve lived. They’ll know that I am God. They’ll know that my judgment against them was no empty threat.

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“‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape(A) the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.(B) Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember(C) me—how I have been grieved(D) by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols.(E) They will loathe themselves for the evil(F) they have done and for all their detestable practices.(G) 10 And they will know that I am the Lord;(H) I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.(I)

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