²⁶ Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, ^(A)because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

⁴ and also ^(A)for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.

^11 (A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things ^(B)more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, ^(C)and has made Judah also to sin ^(D)with his idols, ¹² therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster^[a] that the ears of everyone who hears of it ^(E)will tingle. ^13 (F)And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Though ^(B)Moses ^(C)and Samuel ^(D)stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! ² And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

^3 (F)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and ^(G)the birds of the air ^(H)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. ^4 (I)And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what ^(J)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

⁷ And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous ^(A)sister Judah saw it. ⁸ She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, ^(B)I had sent her away with ^(C)a decree of divorce. ^(D)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went ^(E)and played the whore. ⁹ Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with ^(F)stone and tree. ¹⁰ Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me ^(G)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

^16 (A)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, ^(B)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, ^(C)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

² And the Lord sent against him bands of the ^(A)Chaldeans and ^(B)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, ^(C)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read. ^17 (A)Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore ^(B)my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.