⁶³It pleased the Lord to give you success and to increase your numbers. But it will please him just as much to wipe you out and destroy you. You will be removed from the land you are entering to take as your own.

⁶⁴Then the Lord will scatter you among all of the nations. He’ll spread you around from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship statues of gods that are made out of wood and stone. You and your people long ago hadn’t known anything about those gods.

⁶⁵Among those nations you won’t find any peace. There won’t be any place where you can settle down and rest your feet. There the Lord will give you minds that are filled with worry. He’ll give you eyes that are worn out from sobbing. Your hearts won’t have any hope.

⁶⁶Your lives will always be in danger. You will be filled with fear night and day. You will never be sure you are safe. ⁶⁷In the morning you will say, “We wish it were evening!” In the evening you will say, “We wish it were morning!” Your hearts will be filled with fear. The things you see will terrify you.

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