⁸ I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn;^(A) all who pass by will be appalled^(B) and will scoff because of all its wounds.^(C)

⁹ I will summon^(A) all the peoples of the north^(B) and my servant^(C) Nebuchadnezzar^(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(F) and an everlasting ruin.^(G)

¹¹ This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,^(A) and these nations will serve^(B) the king of Babylon seventy years.^(C)

¹⁸ Jerusalem^(A) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin^(B) and an object of horror and scorn,^(C) a curse^[a](D)—as they are today;^(E)

¹³ I swear^(A) by myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah^(B) will become a ruin and a curse,^[a] an object of horror^(C) and reproach;^(D) and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”^(E)