²⁷ So the Lord said, “I will remove^(A) Judah also from my presence^(B) as I removed Israel, and I will reject^(C) Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’^[a]”

¹³ I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line^(A) used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe^(B) out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

¹¹ The king^(A) of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.^(B)

²⁴ “Have you not noticed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two kingdoms^[a](A) he chose’? So they despise^(B) my people and no longer regard them as a nation.^(C)

⁴ He built altars^(A) in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”^(B)

²⁰ Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers,^(A) until he thrust them from his presence.^(B)

¹⁸ So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence.^(A) Only the tribe of Judah was left,

³² “This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(E)

³⁵ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you have forgotten^(F) me and turned your back on me,^(G) you must bear^(H) the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.”