⁷ Then afterward,” declares the Lord, “^(A)I will hand Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, that is, those who survive in this city from the plague, the sword, and the famine, over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to their enemies, and to those who seek their lives; and he will strike and kill them with the edge of the sword. He ^(B)will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’

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.’”

¹⁹ the ^(A)officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the high officials and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf— ²⁰ I will hand them over to their enemies and to those who ^(B)seek their lives. And their ^(C)dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth. ^21 (D)Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will also hand over to their enemies and to those who seek their lives, and to the army of the king of Babylon which has ^(E)withdrawn from you.