26. And there was great wailing in Israel and in all of their places.
27. And the leaders and elders mourned, and the virgins and young men became weak, and the splendor of the women was changed.
28. Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and those who sat in the marriage bed mourned.
29. And the land shook on behalf of the inhabitants in it, and the entire house of Jacob was clothed with confusion.
30. And after two years of days, the king sent the prince of his tributes to the cities of Judah, and he came to Jerusalem with a great crowd.
31. And he spoke peaceful words to them, in deceitfulness; and they believed him.
32. And he rushed upon the city suddenly, and he struck it with a great scourging, and he destroyed many of the people of Israel.
33. And he took the spoils of the city, and he burned it with fire, and he destroyed its houses and the walls around it.
34. And they led away the women as captives, and they possessed the children and the cattle.
35. And they built up the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with strong towers, and it became a stronghold for them.
36. And they set up in that place a sinful people, wicked men, and together they grew strong in it. And they stored up weapons and provisions. And they gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem,
37. and deposited them in that place. And they became a great snare.
38. And this became a place of ambush against the sanctuary and a diabolical evil in Israel.
39. And they poured out innocent blood around the sanctuary, and they contaminated the sanctuary.
40. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them, and the city became the dwelling place of outsiders, and she became a stranger to her own offspring, and her own children abandoned her.
41. Her sanctuary was desolate, like a place of solitude, her feast days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into disgrace, her honors into nothing.