⁹ I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all the places to which I will drive them.^(A)

¹¹ “Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has practiced these abominations, and has done greater evil than all that was done by the Amorites before him, and has led Judah into sin by his idols,^{(A) 12} therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am about to bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that, when any hear of it, their ears shall ring: ¹³ I will measure Jerusalem with the same cord as I did Samaria, and with the plummet I used for the house of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a dish, wiping it inside and out.^{(B) 14} I will cast off the survivors of my inheritance. I will deliver them into enemy hands, to become prey and booty for all their enemies, ¹⁵ because they have done what is evil in my sight and provoked me from the day their ancestors came forth from Egypt until this very day.” ¹⁶ Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that it filled the length and breadth of Jerusalem, in addition to the sin he caused Judah to commit by doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

²⁶ Yet the Lord did not turn from his fiercely burning anger against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had given.

³ This befell Judah because the Lord had stated that he would put them out of his sight for the sins Manasseh had committed in all that he did, ⁴ and especially because of the innocent blood he shed; he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.^(A)