"And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you.

"then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues -- great and prolonged plagues -- and serious and prolonged sicknesses.

"The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.

'And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day.'

Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! [We are] for signs and wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts, Who dwells in Mount Zion.

"I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as [it is] this day;

"I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you shall know that I [am] the LORD.

" Thus says the Lord GOD: 'You shall drink of your sister's cup, The deep and wide one; You shall be laughed to scorn And held in derision; It contains much.

You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.

"When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name -- when they said of them, 'These [are] the people of the LORD, [and] yet they have gone out of His land.'

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.