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.

^28 (A)For I will make the land most desolate, ^[a]her ^(B)arrogant strength shall cease, and ^(C)the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. ²⁹ Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.” ’

¹³ For ^(A)I have sworn by Myself,” says the Lord, “that ^(B)Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a ^[a]waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual ^[b]wastes.”

⁸ I will make this city ^(A)desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

⁸ And as for ^(A)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ^(B)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’