35 They stored up weapons and provisions, depositing there the plunder they had collected from Jerusalem, and they became a great snare.
36 The citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary,and a wicked adversary to Israel at all times.
37 They shed innocent blood around the sanctuary;they defiled the sanctuary.
38 Because of them the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away,she became the abode of strangers.She became a stranger to her own offspring,and her children forsook her.
39 Her sanctuary became desolate as a wilderness;her feasts were turned into mourning,Her sabbaths to shame,her honor to contempt.
40 As her glory had been, so great was her dishonor:her exaltation was turned into mourning.
41 Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people,