Jeremiah 21:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence. ⁷ Afterward, says the Lord, I will give Zedeki′ah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrez′zar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them, or spare them, or have compassion.’

⁸ “And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.