Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever?

Walk over these total ruins; our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.

Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple; they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.

Why did you break down the fences around it? Now anyone passing by can steal its grapes;

wild hogs trample it down, and wild animals feed on it.

So I, the LORD God of Israel, will bring such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will be stunned.

I will abandon the people who survive, and will hand them over to their enemies, who will conquer them and plunder their land.

Manasseh killed so many innocent people that the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with blood; he did this in addition to leading the people of Judah into idolatry, causing them to sin against the LORD.

the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.

Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.

On the seventh day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.

and his soldiers tore down the city walls.

King Neco of Egypt took him prisoner and made Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold as tribute.

Neco made Joahaz' brother Eliakim king of Judah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Joahaz was taken to Egypt by Neco.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judah, captured Jehoiakim, and took him to Babylonia in chains.

Nebuchadnezzar carried off some of the treasures of the Temple and put them in his palace in Babylon.

So the LORD brought the king of Babylonia to attack them. The king killed the young men of Judah even in the Temple. He had no mercy on anyone, young or old, man or woman, sick or healthy. God handed them all over to him.

Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.

But do not measure the outer courts, because they have been given to the heathen, who will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.

Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago, whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe. Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.

where he looked after his flocks, and he made him king of Israel, the shepherd of the people of God.

You bring them in and plant them on your mountain, the place that you, LORD, have chosen for your home, the Temple that you yourself have built.

I was angry with my people; I treated them as no longer mine: I put them in your power, and you showed them no mercy; even the aged you treated harshly.

They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire; they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.

They wanted to crush us completely; they burned down every holy place in the land.

and carried off to Babylon all the treasures in the Temple and the palace. As the LORD had foretold, Nebuchadnezzar broke up all the gold utensils which King Solomon had made for use in the Temple.

The enemies robbed her of all her treasures. She saw them enter the Temple itself, Where the LORD had forbidden Gentiles to go.

Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why the LORD has made their wealth repulsive to them.

"I will let foreigners rob them," says the LORD, "and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.

God said to them, "Defile the Temple. Fill its courtyards with corpses. Get to work!" So they began to kill the people in the city.

He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem,

and his soldiers tore down the city walls.

He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.

"When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the LORD Almighty had said, 'Zion will be plowed like a field; Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.'

Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem;

And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.