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“I will ·send [appoint] four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. “I will send ·war [L the sword] to kill, dogs to drag the bodies away, and the birds of the ·air [sky; heavens] and ·wild animals [L beasts of the land] to eat and destroy the bodies. I will make them [C the people of Judah] ·hated by [a horror to] everyone on earth because of what Manasseh did in Jerusalem. (Manasseh son of Hezekiah was king of the nation of Judah [C from 698–642 bc; he was a particularly wicked king; 2 Kin. 21:1–18; 23:26–27].)

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And I will (A)appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the Lord: “the sword to kill, the (B)dogs to drag away, and the (C)birds of the sky and the animals of the earth to devour and destroy. I will (D)make them an object of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of (E)Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

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