They will demolish you ¹  – you and your children within your walls ²  – and they will not leave within you one stone ³  on top of another, ⁴  because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” ⁵ 

for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills, ¹ 

I will make all my mountains into a road; I will construct my roadways.”

The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.

Every ¹  island fled away ²  and no mountains could be found. ³ 

The entrance to the bottom ¹  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ²  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ³  floor.

You saturate ¹  its furrows, and soak ²  its plowed ground. ³  With rain showers you soften its soil, ⁴  and make its crops grow. ⁵ 

He sent his anger in full force; ¹  he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction. ² 

Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

You have brought to an end his splendor, ¹  and have knocked ²  his throne to the ground.

as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down – to the place you appointed for them. ¹ 

He led them on a level road, ¹  that they might find a city in which to live.

The wise person ¹  can scale ²  the city of the mighty and bring down the stronghold ³  in which they trust. ⁴ 

Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus? ¹ 

who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running on flat land ¹  they did not stumble.

The Babylonians ¹  burned down the royal palace, the temple of the Lord, and the people’s homes, ²  and they tore down the wall of Jerusalem. ³ 

and her daughters ¹  who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.

I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.