³ And I said to the king, “^(A)May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad ^(B)when the city, the ^[a]site of my fathers’ tombs, is desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

² “This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ^(A)ruins and no one lives in them,

⁶ Therefore My ^(A)wrath and My anger gushed out and burned in the ^(B)cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become ruins and a ^(C)desolation as it is this day.

²² So the Lord was ^(A)no longer able to endure it, ^(B)because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; so your land has become a ^(C)place of ruins, an object of horror, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.