25. So tell these people, ‘This is what the Sovereign lord says: You eat meat with blood in it, you worship idols, and you murder the innocent. Do you really think the land should be yours?
26. Murderers! Idolaters! Adulterers! Should the land belong to you?’
27. “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die by the sword. And I will send wild animals to eat those living in the open fields. Those hiding in the forts and caves will die of disease.
28. I will completely destroy the land and demolish her pride. Her arrogant power will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate that no one will even travel through them.
29. When I have completely destroyed the land because of their detestable sins, then they will know that I am the lord.’