Ezekiel 5:14

A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jeru

you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to

Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come,

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the resident

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule,

then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctif

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple moun

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of you

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this

I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wo

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, he

Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.