⁷ And He said to them, “^(A)Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city. ⁸ Now it happened as they were striking the people and I alone remained, that I ^(B)fell on my face and cried out and said, “^(C)Alas, Lord Yahweh! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel ^[a]by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

⁹ Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is ^(D)filled with bloodshed, and the city is ^(E)full of perversion; for ^(F)they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh does not see!’