16 but they continually (A)mocked the messengers of God, (B)despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, (C)until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy. 17 (D)Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand. 18 (E)All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon.

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