⁹ He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

⁵ But I will send a fire on Judah, And it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

³ Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

⁴ Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

⁵ They behaved like men wielding axes, Cutting through a thicket of trees.

⁶ Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.

⁷ They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your Name.

¹² Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, And the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

¹ > God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

¹⁹ They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.

⁸ Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?

¹³ and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

¹⁰ For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

⁸ The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

²² Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

¹⁰ Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

¹³ and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

¹⁴ For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

⁵ As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,

⁶ "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."

⁷ The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

¹⁰ The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: For she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom you did command that they should not enter into your assembly.

⁸ The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

⁹ Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.

¹⁴ therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.