17 At that my anger will indeed blaze against them in that day,+ and I shall certainly forsake them+ and conceal my face from them,+ and they must become something to be consumed; and many calamities and distresses must come upon them,+ and they will be bound to say in that day, ‘Is it not because our* God is not in our midst that these calamities have come upon us?’*+

18 Therefore Jehovah got very incensed+ against Israel, so that he removed them from his sight.+ He did not let any remain but the tribe of Judah alone.+