^20 (A)then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have ^[a]sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a ^(B)byword among all peoples.

⁷ Since the days of our fathers to this day ^(A)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities ^(B)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the ^(C)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to ^(D)humiliation,^[a] as it is this day.

⁸ in that you ^(A)provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be ^(B)a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?