8 Therefore, I myself, the Sovereign lord, am now your enemy. I will punish you publicly while all the nations watch.
9 Because of your detestable idols, I will punish you like I have never punished anyone before or ever will again.
10 Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter to the winds the few who survive.
11 “As surely as I live, says the Sovereign lord, I will cut you off completely. I will show you no pity at all because you have defiled my Temple with your vile images and detestable sins.
12 A third of your people will die in the city from disease and famine. A third of them will be slaughtered by the enemy outside the city walls. And I will scatter a third to the winds, chasing them with my sword.
13 Then at last my anger will be spent, and I will be satisfied. And when my fury against them has subsided, all Israel will know that I, the lord, have spoken to them in my jealous anger.
14 “So I will turn you into a ruin, a mockery in the eyes of the surrounding nations and to all who pass by.