² But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, ^(A)there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

^44 (A)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And ^(B)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know ^(C)the time of your ^(D)visitation.”

¹⁸ “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^(A)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^(B)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^(C)Its^[a] end shall come with a flood, ^(D)and to the end there shall be war. ^(E)Desolations are decreed. ²⁷ And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[b] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ^(F)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(G)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

^7 (A)then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, ^(B)and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, ^(C)and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ⁸ And this house will become a heap of ruins.^[a] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ^(D)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

¹¹ Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, ^(A)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

^20 (A)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^(B)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^(C)I make it an unclean thing to them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of ^(D)foreigners for prey, ^(E)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^(F)they shall profane it. ²² I will turn my face from them, and ^(G)they shall profane my treasured^[a] place. Robbers shall enter ^(H)and profane it.