2 They might ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ You tell them this: ‘This is what the Lord says:Some people are meant to die.And they will die.Some are meant to die in war.And they will die in war.Some are meant to die from hunger.And they will die from hunger.Some are meant to be taken as slaves to a foreign country.And they will become slaves in that foreign country.’
3 “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. “I will send war to kill. I will send dogs to drag the bodies away. I will send birds of the air and wild animals. They will eat and destroy the bodies.
4 I will make the people of Judah hated by everyone on earth. I will do this because of what Manasseh did in Jerusalem. (Manasseh son of Hezekiah was king of the nation of Judah.)
5 “Who will feel sorry for you, Jerusalem?Who will be sad and cry for you?Who will go out of his way to ask how you are?
6 Jerusalem, you have left me,” says the Lord.“You keep going farther and farther away.So I will take hold of you and destroy you.I am tired of holding back my anger.
7 I will separate the people of Judah with my pitchfork.I will scatter them at the city gates of the land.My people haven’t changed their ways.So I will destroy them.I will take away their children.
8 Many women will lose their husbands.There will be more widows than the sand of the sea.I will bring a destroyer at noontimeagainst the mothers of the young men of Judah.I will suddenly bring pain and fearon the people of Judah.