¹⁵ So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

⁸ The Babylonians^[a] set fire^(A) to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls^(B) of Jerusalem.

¹⁴ I will tear down the wall^(A) you have covered with whitewash and will level it to the ground so that its foundation^(B) will be laid bare. When it^[a] falls,^(C) you will be destroyed in it; and you will know that I am the Lord.