I will lay your cities waste<n id="1" /> and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword<n id="1" /> after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.p>

<p class="poetry">Better is a dry crust of bread<n id="1" /> where there is quietness<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">than a house full of feasting with strife.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will lay waste your cities;p> <p class="poetry">and you will become desolate.p> <p class="poetry">Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="bodytext">I replied to the king, &#8220;O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors<n id="1" /> lies desolate and its gates destroyed<n id="2" /> by fire?&#8221;

Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you<n id="1" /> will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">I will dry up the waterwaysp> <p class="poetry">and hand the land over to<n id="1" /> evil men.p> <p class="poetry">I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have spoken!p>

<p class="bodytext">Now Moses<n id="1" /> was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert<n id="2" /> and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.<n id="3" />

Then I said to them, &#8220;You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let&#8217;s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.&#8221;

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> says, &#8216;You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.<n id="3" />

So this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her,<n id="1" /> and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die<n id="2" /> by the sword.