3. I will appoint over them four agents of death, declares the Lord: soldiers to kill, dogs to drag off, and vultures and wild animals to devour and destroy.
4. Because of what Judah’s King Manasseh, Hezekiah’s son, has done in Jerusalem, I will make them an object of horror to all nations on earth.
5. Who will pity you, Jerusalem?Who will shed tears over you?Who will stop and ask how you’re doing?
6. You have deserted me,declares the Lord.You have turned your back on me.So I will turn my hand against youand destroy you.I’m tired of holding back.
7. I will winnow them with a winnowing forkat the gates of their country.I will bereave and destroy my peoplebecause they haven’t changed their ways.
8. Their widows will outnumberthe sand on the shore.I will bring a destroyer in broad daylightagainst the mothers of young men.Suddenly I will bring distressand terror upon them.