Then he is to have the house scraped ¹  all around on the inside, ²  and the plaster ³  which is scraped off ⁴  must be dumped outside the city ⁵  into an unclean place.

He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey. His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.’” ¹ 

The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown ¹  and all the terraced fields ²  out to the Kidron Valley ³  on the east as far north ⁴  as the Horse Gate ⁵  will be included within this city that is sacred to the Lord. ⁶  The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”

He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms ¹  the powerful. ² 

They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley. ¹ 

and they brought Uriah back from there. ¹  They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people. ² 

The Philistines ¹  abandoned their idols ²  there, and David and his men picked them up.

They demolished ¹  the sacred pillar of Baal and ²  the temple of Baal; it is used as ³  a latrine ⁴  to this very day.

Hide them in the dust ¹  together, imprison ²  them ³  in the grave. ⁴ 

Do not abandon me, O Lord! My God, do not remain far away from me!

They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them. ¹ 

You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; ¹  those who know me leave me alone in the darkness. ² 

He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile, ¹ 

and tossed ¹  Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea, for his loyal love endures,

Righteousness ¹  guards the one who lives with integrity, ²  but wickedness ³  overthrows the sinner.

Their slain will be left unburied, ¹  their corpses will stink; ²  the hills will soak up their blood. ³ 

Edom’s ¹  streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” ¹  says the Lord.

Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. ¹  It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives. ² 

Why do you keep on forgetting ¹  us? Why do you forsake us so long?