⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

²⁸ For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.