17 ‘This is what Jehovah of armies says: “Here I am sending against them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,*+ and I will make them like rotten* figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.”’+

2 You will burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of the siege are completed.+ Then you will take another third and strike it with the sword all around the city,*+ and the last third you will scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.+