Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians<n id="1" /> for whom she lusted.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look here,<n id="1" /> I am about to deliver you over to<n id="2" /> those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.

<p class="poetry">I will dry up the waterwaysp> <p class="poetry">and hand the land over to<n id="1" /> evil men.p> <p class="poetry">I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have spoken!p>

I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world&#8217;s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

&#8216;But I will take you out of the city.<n id="1" /> And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

<p class="poetry">Will you still say, &#8220;I am a god,&#8221; before the one who kills you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">though you are a man and not a god &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">when you are in the power of those who wound you?p>

<p class="poetry">You will die the death of the uncircumcised<n id="1" /> by the hand of foreigners;p> <p class="poetry">for I have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar<n id="1" /> of Babylon.p>

I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly,<n id="1" /> as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out.

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm,<n id="1" /> and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.

I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;He gave it to be polished,p> <p class="poetry">to be grasped in the hand &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the sword is sharpened, it is polished &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">giving it into the hand of the executioner.p>

<p class="poetry">I will pour out my anger on you;p> <p class="poetry">the fire of my fury I will blow on you.p> <p class="poetry">I will hand you over to brutal men,p> <p class="poetry">who are skilled in destruction.p>

I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience<n id="1" /> my vengeance, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage<n id="1" /> on my shoulder while they watched.p>

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc> when I place my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon and he extends it against the land of Egypt.

tell them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah,<n id="1" /> and make them into one stick &#8211; they will be one in my hand.&#8217;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants<n id="1" /> the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days<n id="2" /> that I would bring you against them?

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity,<n id="1" /> for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.