²⁶ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ²⁷ “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind.^(A) Is anything too hard for me?^{(B) 28} Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar^(C) king of Babylon, who will capture it.^{(D) 29} The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down,^(E) along with the houses^(F) where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings^(G) to other gods.^(H)

³⁰ “The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth;^(I) indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my anger^(J) with what their hands have made,^(K) declares the Lord. ³¹ From the day it was built until now, this city^(L) has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove^(M) it from my sight. ³² The people of Israel and Judah have provoked^(N) me by all the evil^(O) they have done—they, their kings and officials,^(P) their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem. ³³ They turned their backs^(Q) to me and not their faces; though I taught^(R) them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.^{(S) 34} They set up their vile images^(T) in the house that bears my Name^(U) and defiled^(V) it. ³⁵ They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom^(W) to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek,^(X) though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind^(Y)—that they should do such a detestable^(Z) thing and so make Judah sin.^(AA)