"For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts."
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Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, And the little house into bits.
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house `with' breaches, And the little house `with' clefts.