10. Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter to the winds the few who survive.
11. “As surely as I live, says the Sovereign lord, I will cut you off completely. I will show you no pity at all because you have defiled my Temple with your vile images and detestable sins.
12. A third of your people will die in the city from disease and famine. A third of them will be slaughtered by the enemy outside the city walls. And I will scatter a third to the winds, chasing them with my sword.
13. Then at last my anger will be spent, and I will be satisfied. And when my fury against them has subsided, all Israel will know that I, the lord, have spoken to them in my jealous anger.
14. “So I will turn you into a ruin, a mockery in the eyes of the surrounding nations and to all who pass by.
15. You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the lord punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the lord.