^{27 Ref} How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

^{28 Ref} Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

^{29 Ref} Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,