And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name (by casting it) to the ground.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.
Thy holy people possessed (it) but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.
Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?