⁷ Then afterwards,” declares the Lord, “^(A)I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He ^(B)will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’

⁸ “You shall also say to this people, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I ^(C)set before you the way of life and the way of death. ⁹ He who ^(D)dwells in this city will die by the ^(E)sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty. ¹⁰ For I have ^(F)set My face against this city for ^[a]harm and not for good,” declares the Lord. “It will be ^(G)given into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will ^(H)burn it with fire.”’

²⁰ I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who ^(A)seek their life. And their ^(B)dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

³⁷ therefore, behold, I will ^(A)gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you ^(B)hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and ^(C)expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.

¹⁷ The ^[a](A)Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, ^[b]she became disgusted with them.

²² “Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord ^[a]God, ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom ^[b]you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side: