Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!”
And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!
“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.” Therefore thus says the Lord God: “An adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’”
For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress.
And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.
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