Why have You broken down her hedges, So that all who pass by the way pluck her [fruit?]

You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; [And] break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Your holy people have possessed [it] but a little while; Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

Our holy and beautiful temple, Where our fathers praised You, Is burned up with fire; And all our pleasant things are laid waste.

So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city.

The roads to Zion mourn Because no one comes to the set feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted, And she [is] in bitterness.

"I will gather those who sorrow over the appointed assembly, Who are among you, [To whom] its reproach [is] a burden.

The face of the LORD scattered them; He no longer regards them. [The people] do not respect the priests Nor show favor to the elders.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, "Under his shadow We shall live among the nations."

Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, And Israel to reproaches.

He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive [some] of the poor people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.

The bronze pillars that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that [were] in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever [was] solid gold and whatever [was] solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

Now [concerning] the pillars: the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness [was] four fingers; [it was] hollow.

There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around on the network, [were] one hundred.

He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king's close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

"And the prince who [is] among them shall bear [his belongings] on [his] shoulder at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry [them] out through it. He shall cover his face, so that he cannot see the ground with [his] eyes.

"I will also spread My net over him, and he shall be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

'Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these [things,] he shall not escape.' "

"Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base Before all the people, Because you have not kept My ways But have shown partiality in the law."