¹⁰ Therefore ^(A)fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. ^(B)And I will execute judgments on you, ^(C)and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

^12 (A)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; ^(B)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; ^(C)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

¹⁵ You shall be^[a] a reproach and a taunt, a warning ^(A)and a horror, to ^(B)the nations all around you, ^(C)when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and ^(D)with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken—

⁶⁰ yet ^(A)I will remember my covenant with you ^(B)in the days of your youth, ^(C)and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.

⁴¹ As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when ^(A)I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And ^(B)I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.

^22 (A)But I withheld my hand ^(B)and acted for the sake of my name, ^(C)that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

¹⁵ Moreover, ^(A)I swore to them in the wilderness ^(B)that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land ^(C)flowing with milk and honey, ^(D)the most glorious of all lands,

¹⁶ because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; ^(A)for their heart went after their idols.

¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on ^(A)a day of clouds and ^(B)thick darkness.