World English Bible

1 Esdras 1:54-57 World English Bible (WEB)

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:

56. and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nothing: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried to Babylon:

57. and they were servants to him and to his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy: