7. The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord.
8. “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.
9. Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.
10. They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’