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but they continually ^(C1)mocked the messengers of God, ^(C2)despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, ^(C3)until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people, until there was no remedy.

^(C1)So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or frail; He handed them all over to him.

^(C1)He brought all the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and his officers, to Babylon.

Then ^(C1)they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.