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12 Jehovah continued to speak his word to me, He said:
13 »Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful to me. I will stretch out my hand (use my power) against it, cut off its food supply, send a famine to it, and destroy its people and animals.«
14 ‘»Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in that country, they would, by their righteousness, rescue only themselves,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.«
15 ‘»If I send wild animals through that country and they make it childless and turn it into such a wasteland that no one travels through it because of the animals.
16 ‘»As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, ‘not even Noah, Daniel, and Job could rescue their own sons or daughters. They could rescue only themselves and the country would become a wasteland.’«
17 ‘»What if I bring a war against that country by saying I will let a war go throughout this country. And then I destroy the people and the animals in it.
18 ‘»As I am alive, declares the Lord Jehovah, not even Noah, Daniel, and Job could rescue their sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.’«
19 ‘»Let us say I send a plague into that country or pour out my fury on it by killing people and destroying animals.
20 As I am alive, declares the Lord Jehovah, not even Noah, Daniel, and Job could, by their righteousness, rescue their sons or daughters. They could rescue only themselves.«’
21 ‘»This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will surely send four terrible punishments against Jerusalem. I will send wars, famines, wild animals, and plagues. They will destroy people and animals.