³⁷ And you shall become ^(A)an^[a] astonishment, a proverb, ^(B)and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.

^7 (A)then I will ^[a]cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated ^(B)for My name I will cast out of My sight. ^(C)Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ⁸ And as for ^(D)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ^(E)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

⁹ behold, I will send and take ^(A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and ^(C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

⁹ I will deliver them to ^(A)trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, ^(B)to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

^20 (A)then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have ^[a]sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a ^(B)byword among all peoples.

²² so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they ^(A)see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:

²³ ‘The whole land is brimstone, ^(B)salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, ^(C)like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ ²⁴ All nations would say, ^(D)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ ²⁵ Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; ²⁶ for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. ²⁷ Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, ^(E)to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. ²⁸ And the Lord ^(F)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’