1. Then the Lord said to me: “I would not feel sorry for the people of Judah even if Moses and Samuel prayed for them. Send them away from me! Tell them to go!
2. When they ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ tell them: ‘This is what the Lord says:Those who are meant to diewill die.Those who are meant to die in warwill die in war.Those who are meant to die from hungerwill die from hunger.Those who are meant to be taken captivewill be taken captive.’
3. “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. “I will send war to kill, dogs to drag the bodies away, and the birds of the air and wild animals to eat and destroy the bodies.