They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(A) the dwelling place(B) of your Name.(C)
They said in their hearts, “We will crush(D) them completely!”
    They burned(E) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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11 Our holy and glorious temple,(A) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured(B) lies in ruins.

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For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the houses in this city and the royal palaces of Judah that have been torn down to be used against the siege(A) ramps(B) and the sword in the fight with the Babylonians[a]: ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath.(C) I will hide my face(D) from this city because of all its wickedness.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 33:5 Or Chaldeans

21 I will give their wealth as plunder(A) to foreigners
    and as loot to the wicked of the earth,
    who will defile it.(B)
22 I will turn my face(C) away from the people,
    and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
They will enter it
    and will defile it.(D)

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