^7 (A)then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and ^(B)the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will ^[a]cast out of My sight. So ^(C)Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ⁸ And this house will become ^[b](D)a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘^(E)Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

⁸ I will also make this city a ^(A)desolation and an object of hissing; ^(B)everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its ^[a]disasters.

⁹ I will ^(A)make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a ^(B)reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a ^(C)curse in all places where I will scatter them.

⁹ behold, I will ^(A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will ^[a]utterly destroy them and ^(C)make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

¹⁸ I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will ^(A)make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a ^(B)curse and a horror and a ^(C)hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,