16. even if these three men were in it, as I live” — the declaration of the Lord God — “they could not deliver their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
17. “Or if I bring a sword against that land and say: Let a sword pass through it, so that I wipe out both man and animal from it,
18. even if these three men were in it, as I live” — the declaration of the Lord God — “they could not deliver their sons or daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
19. “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath on it with bloodshed to wipe out both man and animal from it,