⁸ “Many nations will pass by this city; and they will ^(A)say to one another, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?’ ⁹ Then they will say, ‘Because they ^(B)forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God and worshiped other gods and served them.’”

²² So Yahweh was ^(A)no longer able to bear it, ^(B)because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have done; thus your land has become a ^(C)waste place, an object of horror, and an imprecation, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

¹⁸ Therefore I ^(A)poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. ¹⁹ Also I ^(B)scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. ^(C)According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.