The warning for those who remain

15Because you have said, “Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”

16For thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city—your brothers who did not go out with you into exile—

17Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Behold, I am sending against them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten because of their badness.

18And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, a desolation, an object of hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them.

19because they did not listen to my words, declares Yahweh, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, and you did not listen, declares Yahweh.