¹⁸ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them ^(A)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and ^(B)a curse, as it is this day;

²² So the Lord could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, ^(A)as it is this day.

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.

¹⁷ For the time has come ^(A)for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, ^(B)what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

¹² And He has ^(A)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; ^(B)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

⁵ To the others He said in my ^[a]hearing, “Go after him through the city and ^(A)kill;^{[b] (B)}do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. ^6 (C)Utterly^[c] slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but ^(D)do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and ^(E)begin at My sanctuary.” ^(F)So they began with the elders who were before the ^[d]temple. ⁷ Then He said to them, “Defile the ^[e]temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.

⁸ So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I ^(G)fell on my face and cried out, and said, ^(H)“Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”