8. “As for King Zedekiah of Judah, the politicians round him, and the rest of the people of Jerusalem who have stayed in this land or moved to Egypt — I, the Lord, will treat them all like these figs that are too bad to be eaten.
9. I will bring such a disaster on them that all the nations of the world will be terrified. People will mock them, make jokes about them, ridicule them, and use their name as a curse everywhere I scatter them.
10. I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until there is not one of them left in the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.”