"The Temple is now greatly honored, but then everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to this land and this Temple?'

and our Temple, the sacred and beautiful place where our ancestors praised you, has been destroyed by fire. All the places we loved are in ruins.

I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.

The LORD said, "The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.

Because of my anger no one will live in Babylon; it will be left in ruins, and all who pass by will be shocked and amazed.

You did what you said you would do to us and our rulers. You punished Jerusalem more severely than any other city on earth,

Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'

They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the LORD had forbidden them to worship.

"Afterward many foreigners will pass by and ask one another why I, the LORD, have done such a thing to this great city.

Then they will answer that it is because you have abandoned your covenant with me, your God, and have worshiped and served other gods."

I said, "Has King Jehoiachin become like a broken jar that is thrown away and that no one wants? Is that why he and his children have been taken into exile to a land they know nothing about?"