^24 (A)“I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.

⁶² and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so ^(A)that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be ^(B)desolate for ever.’