Because of YHWH’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be completely desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and scoff at all her wounds.
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?
If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.
When y’all ask, ‘Why has YHWH our God done all these things to us?’ Then you are to say to them, ‘Just as y’all have forsaken me and served foreign gods in y’all’s land, so y’all will serve strangers in a land that is not your own.’
Therefore the wrath of YHWH was on Judah and Jerusalem, and ʜᴇ has delivered them an object of terror, horror, and hissing scorn, as y’all can see with you* eyes.