18. though these three men were in it, as I live, says Adonai, they will not deliver sons or daughters, for they will only deliver themselves.
19. “Or, suppose I were to send a plague to that land and pour out My fury upon it in blood, to cut off man and beast from it.
20. Even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, as I live, says Adonai, they would not deliver either a son or a daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”
21. For thus Adonai says: “How much more if I send My four dreadful judgments against Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil beasts and the plague—to cut man and beast off from it.