⁸ ‘But like the ^(A)bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness,’ indeed, this is what the Lord says, ‘so will I give up ^(B)Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the ^(C)remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and the ones who live in the land of ^(D)Egypt. ⁹ I will ^(E)make them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a ^(F)disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a ^(G)curse in all the places where I will scatter them. ¹⁰ And I will send the ^(H)sword, the famine, and the plague upon them until they are eliminated from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”