³² So devastated will I leave the land that your enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.^{(A) 33} And you I will scatter among the nations^(B) at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

²⁵ The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven,^[a] so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.^(A)

¹⁸ to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;