8 “So this is what the Lord God says: I myself am against you, and I will punish you as the nations watch.
9 I will do things among you that I have not done before and that I will never do anything like again, because you do the things I hate.
10 So parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and will scatter to the winds all who are left alive.
11 So the Lord God says: You have made my Temple unclean with all your evil idols and the hateful things you do. Because of this, as surely as I live, I will cut you off. I will have no pity, and I will show no mercy.
12 A third of you will die by disease or be destroyed by hunger inside your walls. A third will fall dead by the sword outside your walls. And a third I will scatter in every direction as I chase them with a sword.
13 Then my anger will come to an end. I will use it up against them, and then I will be satisfied. Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken. After I have carried out my anger against them, they will know how strongly I felt.
14 “I will make you a ruin and a shame among the nations around you, to be seen by all who pass by.