⁹ I will make them abhorrent^(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,^(B) a curse^[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish^(D) them.

¹¹ “Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil^(A) than the Amorites^(B) who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.^{(C) 12} Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster^(D) on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.^{(E) 13} I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line^(F) used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe^(G) out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴ I will forsake^(H) the remnant^(I) of my inheritance and give them into the hands of enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their enemies; ¹⁵ they have done evil^(J) in my eyes and have aroused^(K) my anger from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until this day.”

¹⁶ Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood^(L) that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin that he had caused Judah^(M) to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

²⁶ Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger,^(A) which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh^(B) had done to arouse his anger.

³ Surely these things happened to Judah according to the Lord’s command,^(A) in order to remove them from his presence^(B) because of the sins of Manasseh^(C) and all he had done, ⁴ including the shedding of innocent blood.^(D) For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.^(E)