51. But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spoke to them, they scoffed at his prophets:
52. so far forth, that he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them;
53. who killed their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child; but he delivered all into their hands.
54. And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried them away to Babylon.
55. And they burned the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burned the towers thereof with fire: