1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
2 If they ask you, ‘Where should we go?’ tell them the Lord says this:“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease.Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war.Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation.Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.”
3 “I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.
4 I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.”
5 The Lord cried out,“Who in the world will have pity on you, Jerusalem?Who will grieve over you?Who will stop long enoughto inquire about how you are doing?
6 I, the Lord, say: ‘You people have deserted me!You keep turning your back on me.’So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you.I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”
7 The Lord continued,“In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind.I will destroy my people.I will kill off their children.I will do so because they did not change their behavior.