¹⁷ He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,^[a](A) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men^(B) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.^(C) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.^(D)

⁹ I will make them eat^(A) the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies^(B) will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

¹⁰ “Then break the jar^(C) while those who go with you are watching, ¹¹ and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash^(D) this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury^(E) the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.