²⁸ “For thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hand of ^(A)those you hate, into the hand of those ^(B)from whom you alienated yourself.

Judgment on Jerusalem

²² “Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God:

³⁷ surely, therefore, ^(A)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

¹⁵ Then Amnon hated her ^[a]exceedingly, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”

⁹ Therefore its name is called ^[a]Babel, ^(A)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

^10 (A)And the beginning of his kingdom was ^(B)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.