16 even ^athough these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; only they would be delivered, and the land would be ^bdesolate.  ‡

17 “Or if ^aI bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land,’ and I ^bcut off man and beast from it,  ‡

21 For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when ^aI send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?  ‡

22 ^aYet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who will be ^bbrought out, both sons and daughters; surely they will come out to you, and ^cyou will see their ways and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it.  ‡