33. Then they built up the City of David with a high, strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel.
34. There they installed a sinful race, transgressors of the law, who fortified themselves inside it.
35. They stored up weapons and provisions, depositing there the plunder they had collected from Jerusalem, and they became a great snare.
36. The citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary,and a wicked adversary to Israel at all times.
37. They shed innocent blood around the sanctuary;they defiled the sanctuary.
38. Because of them the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away,she became the abode of strangers.She became a stranger to her own offspring,and her children forsook her.
39. Her sanctuary became desolate as a wilderness;her feasts were turned into mourning,Her sabbaths to shame,her honor to contempt.
40. As her glory had been, so great was her dishonor:her exaltation was turned into mourning.