8 In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, that is, in the 19th year of King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king of Babylon, Neb·uʹzar·adʹan+ the chief of the guard, the servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.+ 9 He burned down the house of Jehovah,+ the king’s house,*+ and all the houses of Jerusalem;+ he also burned down the house of every prominent man.+

8 “‘And many nations will pass by this city and say to one another: “Why did Jehovah do this to this great city?”+ 9 And they will reply: “Because they abandoned the covenant of Jehovah their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.”’+