In the days of her affliction and her wandering, Jerusalem remembered all her desirable things from ancient days, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy with no one to help her. The enemies saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.

For this My people have gone into captivity without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their tumult, and he who exults, shall go down into it.

Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoils without price, because of all your sins, even in all your borders.

And I will give all the wealth of this city, and its produce, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; who will plunder them and take them, and bring them to Babylon.

Also the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the bronze sea in the house of Jehovah, and carried all the bronze from them to Babylon.

And the captain of the guard took away the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the cups; what was gold, in gold; and what was silver, in silver.

Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place; they set up their banners for signs.

And now all its engravings they strike down with axes and hammers.

They said in their hearts, Together let us violently oppress them. They have burned up all the meeting places of the Mighty God in the land.

i1 [A Psalm of Asaph.] i0 par O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

How long, Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

The people of Your holiness have possessed it but a little while; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a desolation.

Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised You, is burned up with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.

And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house. And he burned with fire all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great ones.

I will turn My face from them, and they will defile My secret place; for violent ones shall enter it and defile it.

Then He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! And they went out and killed in the city.

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation none of them shall enter the assembly of Jehovah, perpetually;

On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the ears of the people, and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should come into the assembly of God forever,

When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it; My house; and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations.

So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.