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Now the Lord spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

"^(q)Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, ^(r)having done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him, and ^(s)has also made Judah sin ^(t)with his idols;

therefore thus says the Lord , the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, ^(u)both his ears will tingle.

^(v)I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;

because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.'"

^(w)Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin ^(x)with which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord .