18. Yes, I will pursue them with war, famine, and disease, and I will scatter them around the world. In every nation where I send them, I will make them an object of damnation, horror, contempt, and mockery.
19. For they refuse to listen to me, though I have spoken to them repeatedly through the prophets I sent. And you who are in exile have not listened either,” says the lord.
20. Therefore, listen to this message from the lord, all you captives there in Babylon.
21. This is what the lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says about your prophets—Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah—who are telling you lies in my name: “I will turn them over to Nebuchadnezzar for execution before your eyes.
22. Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying, ‘May the lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!’