⁸ “Many nations will pass by this city; and they will ^(A)say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this great city?’ ⁹ Then they will ^[a]answer, ‘Because they ^(B)abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.’”

¹¹ Now these things happened to them as an ^(A)example, and ^(B)they were written for our instruction, upon whom ^(C)the ends of the ages have come.