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"Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming ^(F1)release, each one to his brother and each to his neighbor. Behold, I am ^(C1)proclaiming a ^(F1)release to you,' declares the LORD, 'to the ^(C2)sword, to the plague, and to the famine; and I will make you a ^(C3)terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

'I will give the people who have ^(C1)violated My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they ^(C2)cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—

the ^(C1)officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the high officials and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—

I will hand them over to their enemies and to those who ^(C1)seek their lives. And their ^(C2)dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.