⁸ And I will make this city ^(A)a horror, ^(B)a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.

^9 (A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ^(C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

^18 (A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ^(B)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

¹⁸ I will pursue them with ^(A)sword, famine, and pestilence, ^(B)and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, ^(C)to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations ^(D)where I have driven them,