¹⁸ Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

³ Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

⁴ Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

⁵ They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

⁶ Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

⁷ They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

² But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

² But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.

²⁴ And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him and he will do his pleasure; and he will send destruction on the strong ones.

¹ How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

¹⁰ The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

¹¹ In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

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¹² And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.

¹⁹ And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.

⁶ For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

⁴ You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.

⁵ If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

⁶ And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.