[A Psalm] of instruction, of Asaph. Why have You rejected [us], O God, forever? [Why] has Your wrath been kindled against the sheep of Your pasture?

Lift up Your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in Your holy places.

And they that hate You have boasted in the midst of Your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

Why have You broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.

[it shall] not [be] so. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I bring calamities upon Jerusalem and Judah, so that both the ears of everyone that hears shall tingle.

And I will reject the remnant of My inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies; and they shall be for a plunder and for a spoil to all their enemies;

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Judah to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went forth by night, by the way of the gate between the walls (this is [the gate] of the king's garden). And the Chaldeans [were set] against the city round about; and [the king] went by the way of the plain.

And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and he pronounced judgment upon him.

And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this [is] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

And the force of the Chaldeans pulled down the wall of Jerusalem round about.

And the king brought him over to Egypt, and imposed a tribute on the land, a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

And Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king over Judah in the place of his father Josiah, and changed his name [to] Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh Necho took his brother Jehoahaz and brought him into Egypt, and he died there; but [he] had given the silver and gold to Pharaoh. At that time the land began to be taxed to give the money at the command of Pharaoh; and everyone as he could borrowed the silver and the gold of the people of the land, to give to Pharaoh Necho.

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him away to Babylon.

And he carried away a part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon.

And He brought the king of the Chaldeans against them, and killed their young men with the sword in the house of His sanctuary, and did not spare Zedekiah, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men; He delivered all things into their hands.

And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

But leave out the outer court of the temple, and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. And they shall trample the holy city for forty-two months.

Remember Your congregation which You have purchased from the beginning; You ransomed the rod of Your inheritance, this Mount Zion where You have dwelt.

He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob His servant, and Israel His inheritance.

Bring them in and plant them in the mountain of their inheritance, in Your prepared habitation, which You, O Lord, have prepared; the sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have made ready.

I have been provoked with My people; you have defiled My inheritance; I gave them into your hand, but you did not extend mercy to them; you made the yoke of the aged man very heavy,

They have burned Your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of Your name.

They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.

And he brought forth from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut up all the golden vessels which Solomon the king of Israel [had] made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things, for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, [concerning] whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.

[As for] their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations; therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.

And He said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and strike.

And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every house did the captain of the guard burn.

And the force of the Chaldeans pulled down the wall of Jerusalem round about.

And he burned the house of the Lord, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned its palaces with fire, and [utterly destroyed] every beautiful vessel.

Micah the Moreshite lived in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, Thus says the Lord; Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.

[This translation omits this verse.]

and he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burned with fire.

Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.