¹⁹ Then ^(A)they burned the house of God and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.

² “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘^(A)Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him: “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, ^(B)I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and ^(C)he will burn it with fire.

¹⁰ For ^(A)even if you had struck down the entire military force of the Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men remaining among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and ^(B)burn this city with fire.’”

¹⁸ But if you will ^(A)not go out to the ^[a]officers of the king of Babylon, then this city ^(B)will be given over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, and ^(C)you yourself will not escape from their hand.’”

⁸ The Chaldeans also ^(A)burned with fire the house of the king and the houses of the people, and they ^(B)tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

¹³ And he ^(A)burned the house of Yahweh, the ^(B)king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.