¹⁷ This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “I am about to send against them sword, famine, and plague^(A) and will make them like rotten figs that are inedible because they are so bad. ¹⁸ I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.^{(B) 19} I will do this because they have not listened to My words”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“that I sent to them with My servants the prophets time and time again.^[a](C) And you too have not listened.” This is the Lord’s declaration.