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.

⁵¹ We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house.

³ An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:

⁷ Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

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.

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.

⁸ They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

¹ On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

¹⁴ But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

⁷ in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

⁷ He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.

²² My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

¹⁷ The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

¹⁸ The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.

¹⁹ The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away.

²⁰ The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

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.

⁵ Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

¹³ Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.

¹⁸ Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

¹³ Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitudes are parched with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} has enlarged its desire, And opened its mouth without measure; And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

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

² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, The flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

³ Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

⁵ How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶ Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; On the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.