³³ But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

²⁸ The Lord uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’

¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors.^(A) He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates^(B) because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.^(C)