³⁸ On all the roofs in Moab
    and in the public squares^(A)
there is nothing but mourning,
    for I have broken Moab
    like a jar^(B) that no one wants,”
declares the Lord.

²⁸ Is this man Jehoiachin^(A) a despised, broken pot,^(B)
    an object no one wants?
Why will he and his children be hurled^(C) out,
    cast into a land^(D) they do not know?

³⁴ Weep and wail, you shepherds;^(A)
    roll^(B) in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
For your time to be slaughtered^(C) has come;
    you will fall like the best of the rams.^[a](D)

What troubles you now,
    that you have all gone up on the roofs,^(D)

⁸ Israel is swallowed up;^(A)
    now she is among the nations
    like something no one wants.^(B)

¹⁴ It will break in pieces like pottery,^(A)
    shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
    for taking coals from a hearth
    or scooping water out of a cistern.”