¹² And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?”

He answered, “Because I know ^(A)the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you ^(B)will dash their children, and rip open their women with child.”

¹⁰ And as for Me also, My ^(A)eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but ^(B)I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”

⁵ To the others He said in my ^[a]hearing, “Go after him through the city and ^(A)kill;^{[b] (B)}do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. ^6 (C)Utterly^[c] slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but ^(D)do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and ^(E)begin at My sanctuary.” ^(F)So they began with the elders who were before the ^[d]temple.

^17 (A)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who ^(B)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

The Destruction of Nineveh