¹⁷ This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: "I will send war, famine, and disease upon them and make them like bad figs, too rotten to eat.

¹⁷ thus says the Lord of hosts , 'Behold , I am sending upon them the sword , famine and pestilence , and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness .