<p class="poetry">He handed the territory of nations over to them,p> <p class="poetry">and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

<p class="poetry">They will be desolate among desolate lands,p> <p class="poetry">and their cities will be among ruined cities.p>

<p class="poetry">I will disturb<n id="1" /> many peoples,p> <p class="poetry">when I bring about your destruction among the nations,p> <p class="poetry">among countries you do not know.p>

He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities.<n id="1" /> He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them.<n id="2" />p>

From earliest times, the prophets who preceded you and me invariably<n id="1" /> prophesied war, disaster,<n id="2" /> and plagues against many countries and great kingdoms.

David said to the whole Israelite assembly, &#8220;If you so desire and the <sc>Lordsc> our God approves,<n id="1" /> let&#8217;s spread the word<n id="2" /> to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities,<n id="3" /> so they may join us.

I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.p>