⁸ I will also make this city an ^(A)object of horror and of hissing; ^(B)everyone who passes by it will be ^[a]horrified and hiss because of all its ^[b]slaughtering.

⁹ behold, I will ^(A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^[a]devote them to destruction and ^(C)make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place.

^18 (A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste place, an object of horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

¹⁸ I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will ^(A)give them over to be a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a ^(B)curse and an object of horror and of ^(C)hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have banished them,