8  Then the nations set ^aagainst him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

  17  While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The ^aChaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  9  Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly ^ddestroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

  14  And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and ^adeliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

  27  And the Lord said, I will ^aremove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

  13  And he read, saying: Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem, for I have seen thine abominations! Yea, and many things did my father read concerning ^bJerusalem—that it should be destroyed, and the inhabitants thereof; many should perish by the sword, and many should be carried away captive into Babylon.