16. even if these three men were in it, as I live, says Adonai, they will not deliver sons or daughters. They would only deliver themselves, but the land will be desolate.
17. Or if I bring a sword on that land and say: ‘Let the sword go through the land,’ so that I cut off man and beast from it;
18. though these three men were in it, as I live, says Adonai, they will not deliver sons or daughters, for they will only deliver themselves.
19. “Or, suppose I were to send a plague to that land and pour out My fury upon it in blood, to cut off man and beast from it.