³³ But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

²⁸ The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’

¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel so that they will^[a] shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors.^(A) He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates^(B) because they made their Asherah poles, angering the Lord.^(C)