<p class="bodytext">Then Michal took a household idol<n id="1" /> and put it on the bed. She put a quilt<n id="2" /> made of goat&#8217;s hair over its head<n id="3" /> and then covered the idol with a garment.

<p class="poetry">Look at the land of the Chaldeans,p> <p class="poetry">these people who have lost their identity!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.p> <p class="poetry">They erected their siege towers,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">demolished<n id="3" /> its fortresses,p> <p class="poetry">and turned it into a heap of ruins.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will lay it waste.p> <p class="poetry">It will lie parched<n id="1" /> and empty before me.p> <p class="poetry">The whole land will be laid waste.p> <p class="poetry">But no one living in it will pay any heed.<n id="2" />p>

Even the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and had brought to the palace<n id="1" /> of Babylon &#8211; even those things King Cyrus brought from the palace of Babylon and presented<n id="2" /> to a man by the name of Sheshbazzar whom he had appointed as governor.