16 Then he spoke to him: “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘For the reason that you have sent messengers+ to inquire of Baʹal-zeʹbub the god* of Ekʹron,+ is it because there is no God at all in Israel of whose word to inquire? Therefore as regards the couch upon which you have gone up, you will not come down off it, because you will positively die.’”

4 I myself, in turn, shall choose ways of ill-treating them;+ and the things frightful to them I shall bring upon them;+ for the reason that I called, but there was no one answering; I spoke, but there were none that listened;+ and they kept on doing what was bad in my eyes, and the thing in which I took no delight they chose.”+