‘And I shall do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I never do again, because of all your abominations.
“For then there shall be great distress, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
“And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yerushalayim.
“You alone have I known of all the clans of the earth, therefore I punish you for all your crookednesses.”
Better off were those pierced by the sword Than those pierced by hunger; For these pine away, Pierced through for lack of the fruits of the field.
And the crookedness of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Seḏ
“Now at that time Miḵ
“And they shall know that I am יהוה, when I have made the land a desert and a waste, because of all their abominations which they have done.” ’