In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.

he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.

The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.

The LORD became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.'

Here I am with the children the LORD has given me. The LORD Almighty, whose throne is on Mount Zion, has sent us as living messages to the people of Israel.

I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.

Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah, together with its kings and leaders, were made to drink from it, so that they would become a desert, a terrible and shocking sight, and so that people would use their name as a curse---as they still do.

I will oppose you. I will make an example of you. I will remove you from the community of my people, so that all of you will know that I am the LORD.

The Sovereign LORD says, "You will drink from your sister's cup; it is large and deep. Everyone will scorn and mock you; the cup is full.

It will make you miserable and drunk, that cup of fear and ruin, your sister Samaria's cup.

Wherever they went, they brought disgrace on my holy name, because people would say, 'These are the people of the LORD, but they had to leave his land.'

All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.