22. “My people, I will breathe out firethat sends you downto the world of the dead.It will scorch your farmlandsand burn deep downunder the mountains.
23. I'll send disaster after disasterto strike you like arrows.
24. You'll be struck by starvationand deadly diseases,by the fangs of wild animalsand poisonous snakes.
25. Young and old alikewill be killed in the streetsand terrified at home.
26. “I wanted to scatter you,so no one would rememberthat you had ever lived.
27. But I dreaded the soundof your enemies saying,‘We defeated Israel with no helpfrom the Lord.’ ”
28. People of Israel,that's what the Lordhas said to you.But you don't have good sense,and you never listento advice.
29. If you did, you could seewhere you are headed.