2 And if they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ you must say to them, ‘This is what Jehovah says:

“Whoever is for deadly plague, to deadly plague!

Whoever is for the sword, to the sword!+

Whoever is for the famine, to the famine!

And whoever is for the captivity, to the captivity!”’+

4 ‘They will die of deadly diseases,+ but no one will mourn them or bury them; they will become like manure on the surface of the ground.+ They will perish by the sword and by famine,+ and their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.’

12 A third of you will die by the pestilence* or perish in your midst by famine. Another third will fall all around you by the sword.+ And I will scatter the last third in every direction,* and I will draw a sword to chase after them.+