⁹ I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.^[a](A)

²⁷ Israel was a laughingstock for you, though he was not caught among thieves, but whenever you spoke of him you shook your head!^(A)