Impending Judgment on Judah

²⁶ Nevertheless the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, ^(A)because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

³ Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight ^(A)because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

⁴ I will hand them over to ^(A)trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of ^(B)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: