³¹ I will turn your cities into ruins^(A) and lay waste^(B) your sanctuaries,^(C) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.^(D)

³³ I will scatter^(A) you among the nations^(B) and will draw out my sword^(C) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,^(D) and your cities will lie in ruins.^(E)

⁹ I will summon^(A) all the peoples of the north^(B) and my servant^(C) Nebuchadnezzar^(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(F) and an everlasting ruin.^(G)

¹¹ This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,^(A) and these nations will serve^(B) the king of Babylon seventy years.^(C)

¹⁸ Jerusalem^(A) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin^(B) and an object of horror and scorn,^(C) a curse^[a](D)—as they are today;^(E)

¹⁷ Do not listen^(A) to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and you will live.^(B) Why should this city become a ruin?

² “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster^(A) I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah.^(B) Today they lie deserted and in ruins^(C)

⁶ Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out;^(A) it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins^(B) they are today.