⁴ “They will ^(A)die of deadly diseases, they ^(B)will not be mourned or buried; they will be like ^(C)dung on the surface of the ground. And they will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the ^(D)birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

⁷ Now then, this is what the Lord God of armies, the God of Israel says: “Why are you ^(A)doing great harm to yourselves, to ^(B)eliminate from yourselves man and woman, child and infant from among Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant,