¹² Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(A)
    the temple^(B) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(C)

¹¹ For the Lord has given the command,
    and he will smash^(A) the great house^(B) into pieces
    and the small house into bits.^(C)

¹⁰ “They do not know how to do right,^(A)” declares the Lord,
    “who store up in their fortresses^(B)
    what they have plundered^(C) and looted.”

“An enemy will overrun your land,
    pull down your strongholds
    and plunder your fortresses.^(D)”

⁵ I will send fire^(A) on Judah
    that will consume the fortresses^(B) of Jerusalem.^(C)”

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(A)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(B)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(C)

¹⁰ Your sacred cities^(A) have become a wasteland;
    even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.^(B)
11 Our holy and glorious temple,^(C) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured^(D) lies in ruins.