And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; and they burned all its fortresses with fire, and destroyed all its articles of desire.
As to this house, which is high, everyone passing by it shall be astonished and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?
So says Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the ones living in it, all the curses that are written in the Book that they have read before the king of Judah;
then I shall pluck them up from off My land that I have given them, and this house that I have sanctified for My name I shall cast away from before My face, and I shall give it for a proverb and a gibe among all the nations.
And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great evil and shame. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.
And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my face be sad when the place of my fathers’ tombs, the city, lies waste and its gates are consumed with fire?
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned and not hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And on the clouds I will command the rain from raining on it.
For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good, a statement of Jehovah. It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
But I will call you to account according to the fruit of your doings, a statement of Jehovah. And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.
And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall enter and kindle this city with fire, and burn it, with the houses where they offered incense on their roofs to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.
Therefore I will do to the house on which My name is called, in which you are trusting, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.
But My words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned back and said, As Jehovah of Hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so He has done with us.