19 For the voice of lamentation is what has been heard from Zion:+ “How we have been despoiled!+ How much we have felt shame! For we have left the land; for they* have thrown away our residences.”*+

18 For this is what Jehovah has said: “Here I am slinging out the inhabitants of the earth* on this occasion,+ and I will cause them distress in order that they may find out.”+