Then the king turned his face about and blessed the whole congregation of Israel while the whole congregation of Israel was standing.
Isaiah 64:11 - Tree of Life Version Will You restrain Yourself at these things? Adonai, will You stay silent, and afflict us very severely? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Our holy and our beautiful house, [the temple] where our fathers praised You, is burned with fire, and all our pleasant and desirable places are in ruins. American Standard Version (1901) Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. Common English Bible Our holy, glorious house, where our ancestors praised you, has gone up in flames; all that we treasured has become a ruin. Catholic Public Domain Version The house of our sanctification and of our glory, where our fathers praised you, has been completely consumed by fire, and all our admirable things have been turned into ruins. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The house of our holiness and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire: and all our lovely things are turned into ruins. |
Then the king turned his face about and blessed the whole congregation of Israel while the whole congregation of Israel was standing.
“Blessed be Adonai who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. Not a single word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses His servant.
He burned down the House of Adonai, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem—every notable building he burned with fire.
They burned the House of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all the palaces with fire and destroyed everything of value.
He said: “Blessed be Adonai, the God of Israel, who with His hands has fulfilled what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying:
When all Bnei-Yisrael saw the fire come down and the glory of Adonai above the House, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, prostrating themselves and praising Adonai, “For He is good and His mercy endures forever.”
The kohanim stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of Adonai that King David had made for praising Adonai—“for His mercy endures forever”—whenever David offered praise by their hand. Opposite them were the kohanim who sounded trumpets while all Israel was standing.
Briefly Your holy people possessed it— our foes have trampled Your Sanctuary.
Then he burned the House of Adonai, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every large house with fire.
In the days of her affliction and her wandering, Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers from the days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies saw her and mocked at her destruction.
How my Lord has clouded over the daughter of Zion in His anger! He hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth. He has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
The Lord rejected His altar, despised His Sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of her citadels into the hand of the enemy. They raised a shout in the house of Adonai as if it were the day of a moed.
speak to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I will profane My Sanctuary, the pride of your might, the desire of your eyes and the longing of your soul. Your sons and your daughters that you have left behind will fall by the sword.
“You, son of man, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, the longing of their soul, as well as their sons and their daughters—
Then the angel of Adonai answered and said, ‘Adonai-Tzva’ot, how long will You withhold compassion on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah with whom You have been angry for 70 years?’
“Don’t you see all these?” He responded to them. “Amen, I tell you, not one stone will be left here on top of another—every one will be torn down!”
“All the nations will say, ‘Why has Adonai done this to this land? Why this great burning anger?’