⁸ And as for ^(A)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ^(B)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

⁸ I will make this city ^(A)desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

⁹ behold, I will send and take ^(A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and ^(C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

¹⁸ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them ^(A)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and ^(B)a curse, as it is this day;