12 When they fast, I am not listening to their entreating cry;+ and when they offer up the whole burnt offering and the grain offering, I am taking no pleasure in them;+ for by the sword and by famine and by pestilence I am bringing them to their end.”+

2 A third you will burn in the very fire in the midst of the city as soon as the days of the siege have come to the full.+ And you must take another third. You will strike [it] with the sword all around her,+ and the [last] third you will scatter to the wind,* and I shall draw out a sword itself after them.+

9 At length I said: “I shall not keep shepherding YOU.*+ The one that is dying, let her die. And the one that is being effaced, let her be effaced.+ And as for the ones left remaining, let them devour, each one the flesh of her companion.”+