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 surrounding nations; and I will ^[a]completely destroy them and ^(C)make them an object of horror and ^[b]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.

¹⁸ To ^(A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^[a]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;