5 “Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness ⁱmore than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and ^jhave not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not¹ even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, 8 therefore thus says the Lord God: ^kBehold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments² in your midst ^lin the sight of the nations. 9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you ^mwhat I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore ⁿfathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will ^oexecute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will ^pscatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have ^qdefiled my sanctuary with all your ^rdetestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.^{3 s}My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

13 “Thus shall my anger ^tspend itself, and I will ^uvent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them. 14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of ^vreproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be⁴ a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I ^wexecute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with ^xfurious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— 16 when I send against you⁵ the deadly ^yarrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply⁶ of bread. 17 ^zI will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”