2Ch 36:14-17, 20, Isa 2:9, 3:2-8, 5:15, 9:14-17, Jer 5:3-6, 23:11-13 | ESV | STEP | All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful , following all the abominations of the nations . And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem .

14 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.

15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, ^asent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 ^bBut they kept mocking the messengers of God, ^cdespising his words and scoffing at his prophets, ^duntil the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Jerusalem Captured and Burned

17 ^eTherefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.

2 Chronicles 36:20

20 He ^ftook into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, ^gand they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,

Isaiah 2:9

9 So man ^his humbled,
and each one ⁱis brought low—
do not forgive them!

Isaiah 3:2-8

2 ^jthe mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
4 ^kAnd I will make boys their princes,
and infants ^{▼▼Or caprice} shall rule over them.
5 ^mAnd the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.
6 For ⁿa man will take hold of his brother
in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
shall be under your rule”;
7 in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a ^ohealer; ^{▼▼Hebrew binder of wounds}
in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
leader of the people.”
8 For Jerusalem has stumbled,
and Judah has fallen,
because their ^qspeech and their deeds are against the Lord,
^rdefying his glorious presence. ^{▼▼Hebrew the eyes of his glory}

Isaiah 5:15

15 ^tMan is humbled, and each one is brought low,
and the eyes of the haughty ^{▼▼Hebrew high} are brought low.

Isaiah 9:14-17

14 So the Lord cut off from Israel ^vhead and tail,
palm branch and reed in one day—
15 ^wthe elder and honored man is the head,
and ^xthe prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord does not ^yrejoice over their young men,
and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is ^zgodless and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks ^aafolly. ^{▼▼Or speaks disgraceful things}
^acFor all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 5:3-6

3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
^adYou have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
^aeThey have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.
4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
^affor they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
5 I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
^agBut they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.
6 Therefore ^aha lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a ^aiwolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^ajA leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their ^akapostasies are great.

Jeremiah 23:11-13

11 ^al“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even ^amin my house I have found their evil,

declares the Lord.
12 ^anTherefore their way shall be to them
like slippery paths ^aoin the darkness,
into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
^apin the year of their punishment,

declares the Lord.
13 In the prophets of ^aqSamaria
^arI saw an unsavory thing:
^asthey prophesied by Baal
^atand led my people Israel astray.