Jer 3:24, 4:20, 12:12, 15:13, 24:8-10, 27:19-22, 32:3-5, 39:2, 8, 52:7-23 | ESV | STEP | But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored , their flocks and their herds , their sons and their daughters .

24 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Jeremiah 4:20

20 ^aCrash follows hard on crash;
the whole land is laid waste.
^bSuddenly my tents are laid waste,
my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 12:12

12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
from one end of the land to the other;
no flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 15:13

13 ^c“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as ^dspoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.

Jeremiah 24:8-10

8 “But thus says the Lord: Like ^ethe bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat ^fZedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who ^gdwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them ^ha horror ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil} to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be ^ja reproach, ^ka byword, ^la taunt, and ^ma curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send ⁿsword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”

Jeremiah 27:19-22

19 ^oFor thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, 20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, ^pwhen he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— 21 thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ^qconcerning the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: 22 ^rThey shall be carried to Babylon ^sand remain there ^tuntil the day when I visit them, declares the Lord. ^uThen I will bring them back ^vand restore them to this place.”

Jeremiah 32:3-5

3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^wBehold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it; 4 ^xZedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, ^ybut shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye. 5 And ^zhe shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the Lord. ^aaThough you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’?”

Jeremiah 39:2

2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

Jeremiah 39:8

8 ^abThe Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, ^acand broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:7-23

7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. 10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at ^adRiblah. 11 ^aeHe put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison ^aftill the day of his death.

The Temple Burned

12 ^agIn the fifth month, on ^ahthe tenth day of the month—that was ^aithe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who ^ajserved the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 13 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and ^akthe deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

17 And the ^alpillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the ^ambronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and ^ancarried all the bronze to Babylon. 18 And they took away ^aothe pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service; 19 ^apalso the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and ^aqthe lampstands and ^arthe dishes for incense ^asand the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. 20 As for the two pillars, the one sea, ^atthe twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks the sea} and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight. 21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} ^awits circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow. 22 On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was ^axfive cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates. 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.