25 I will bring an avenging sword upon you for breaking the covenant.+ If you gather yourselves into your cities, I will send disease into your midst,+ and you will be given into the hand of an enemy.+

 9 “Should I not call them to account for these things?” declares Jehovah.

“Should I* not avenge myself on such a nation?+

22 Finally Jehovah could no longer put up with your evil practices and the detestable things you had done, and your land became a devastated place, an object of horror and cursing, without an inhabitant, as it is today.+