25 Therefore the Lord’s anger(A) burns against his people;
    his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake,(B)
    and the dead bodies(C) are like refuse(D) in the streets.(E)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(F)
    his hand is still upraised.(G)

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16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave(A) for yourself(B) here,
hewing your grave on the height
    and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

17 “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
    and hurl(C) you away, you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw(D) you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots(E) you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house.

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When they went into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.(A)

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Now the cistern where he threw all the bodies of the men he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one King Asa(A) had made as part of his defense(B) against Baasha(C) king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.

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