⁸ And this house will become a heap of ruins.^[a] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ^(A)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

⁸ “‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, ^(A)“Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?” ^9 (B)And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”

²⁴ all the nations ^(A)will say, ^(B)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ ²⁵ Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.

²¹ And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ^(A)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

¹² He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ^(A)our rulers who ruled us,^[a] by ^(B)bringing upon us a great calamity. ^(C)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.

^17 (A)“Edom shall become a horror. ^(B)Everyone who passes by it will be horrified ^(C)and will hiss because of all its disasters.

⁸ And I will make this city ^(A)a horror, ^(B)a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.