7. Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives.Suddenly, all your parties will end.
8. The Sovereign lord has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the lord God of Heaven’s Armies, says: “I despise the arrogance of Israel,and I hate their fortresses.I will give this cityand everything in it to their enemies.”
9. (If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.
10. And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No, by . . . ,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Don’t even mention the name of the lord.”)