³ and say to her: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you.^(A) I will draw my sword^(B) from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.^(C)

⁴ Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword^(A) will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.^(B)

³¹ For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”^(A)