^17 (A)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who ^(B)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

¹⁰ And when ^[a]a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the ^[b]bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”

Then someone will say, “None.”

And he will say, ^(A)“Hold your tongue! ^(B)For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”

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.