¹⁴ I will scatter to the winds all those around him—his staff and all his troops—and I will pursue them with drawn sword.^(A)

² When the days of your siege come to an end, burn^(A) a third^(B) of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind.^(C) For I will pursue them with drawn sword.^(D)

²¹ All his choice troops will fall by the sword,^(A) and the survivors^(B) will be scattered to the winds.^(C) Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken.^(D)

⁴ Then the city wall was broken through,^(A) and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians^[a] were surrounding^(B) the city. They fled toward the Arabah,^{[b] 5} but the Babylonian^[c] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,^(C)

²¹ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments^(A)—sword^(B) and famine^(C) and wild beasts and plague^(D)—to kill its men and their animals!^(E)

¹⁷ “Or if I bring a sword^(A) against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,^(B)

¹⁰ Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.^(A) I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.^{(B) 11} Therefore as surely as I live,^(C) declares the Sovereign^(D) Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary^(E) with all your vile images^(F) and detestable practices,^(G) I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.^{(H) 12} A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds^(I) and pursue with drawn sword.^(J)

²² So now, be sure of this: You will die by the sword, famine^(A) and plague^(B) in the place where you want to go to settle.”^(C)

¹⁶ then the sword^(A) you fear^(B) will overtake you there, and the famine^(C) you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die.^(D)