⁵ But they did not listen and they did not incline their ears^[a] to turn back from their wickedness, to not make smoke offerings to other gods. ⁶ So my wrath and my anger were poured out^[b] and burned^[c] in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became as a site of ruins, as a desolation, as they are this day.’

⁷ So then, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Why are you doing great harm to yourselves,^[d] to cut off for yourselves man and woman, child and suckling, from the midst of Judah, to not leave over for yourselves a remnant,