I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great (A)pestilence. Then afterwards,” declares the Lord, “(B)I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He (C)will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’

“You shall also say to this people, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I (D)set before you the way of life and the way of death.

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