²⁰ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Look, my anger—my burning wrath—is about to be poured out on this place,^(A) on people and animals, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.”^(B)

⁶ I will strike the residents of this city, both people and animals. They will die in a severe plague.

⁴³ Fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying,^(A) ‘It’s a desolation^(B) without people or animals; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans!’

¹⁰ “This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin,^(A) without people or animals—that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals—there will be heard again

¹² “This is what the Lord of Armies says: In this desolate place—without people or animals—and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks.^(A)

²⁹ You are to proclaim concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You have burned the scroll, asking, “Why have you written on it that^(A) the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and cause it to be without people or animals?” ^(B)

⁶² Say, ‘Lord, you have threatened to cut off^(A) this place so that no one will live in it—people or animals.^(B) Indeed, it will remain desolate forever.’