7. They will be scattered among the nations, and no one on earth will remember them any longer, for they have despised my covenant.
8. “How terrible will be your punishment, Assyria. You have let wicked people hide within your borders. Remember, sinful nation, what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah.
9. Their land now lies covered with lumps of tar and heaps of ashes. That is what I do to people who do not obey me.
10. “The Lord says to Ezra: announce to my new people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I had planned to give to Israel.