then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.’”

我就必使这殿如示罗，使这城为地上万国所咒诅的。’”

我就必使这殿如示罗，使这城成为地上万国所诅咒的。’”

我就必使这殿如示罗，使这城成为地上万国所诅咒的。’”

我必使这殿像示罗一样被毁，使耶路撒冷被万国咒诅。”’”

我就必使这殿像示罗一样，使这城成为地上列国咒诅的对象。’”

我就必使這殿如示羅，使這城為地上萬國所咒詛的。』」

我就必使這殿如示羅，使這城成為地上萬國所詛咒的。』」

我就必使這殿如示羅，使這城成為地上萬國所詛咒的。』」

我必使這殿像示羅一樣被毀，使耶路撒冷被萬國咒詛。」』」

我就必使這殿像示羅一樣，使這城成為地上列國咒詛的對象。’”

那麼我就必使這殿同示羅一樣，我必使這城變為地上萬國所引為受咒詛之對象。」』

我必使此室如示羅、使此邑為天下諸國所詛、

則我必棄此殿宇、與昔棄示羅無異、使此邑為列邦所詛。

則我必使斯殿如示羅、使此邑為天下萬邦所詛、

then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the nations of the earth.’”

So I will make this house like Shiloh. All the nations on earth will use the name of this city in a curse.” ’ ”

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”

I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.’”

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an object of cursing for all the nations of the earth.”

Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.’”

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them.

You were sorry and humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I said against this city and its people— that this land would be cursed and become desolate. You tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the Lord.

Your name will be a curse word among my people, for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you and will call his true servants by another name.

I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.

Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.

“‘ Go now to the place at Shiloh where I once put the Tabernacle that bore my name. See what I did there because of all the wickedness of my people, the Israelites.While you were doing these wicked things, says the Lord, I spoke to you about it repeatedly, but you would not listen. I called out to you, but you refused to answer.So just as I destroyed Shiloh, I will now destroy this Temple that bears my name, this Temple that you trust in for help, this place that I gave to you and your ancestors.

“ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says:‘ Just as my anger and fury have been poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so they will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery. And you will never see your homeland again.’

So the Philistines fought desperately, and Israel was defeated again. The slaughter was great; 30,000 Israelite soldiers died that day. The survivors turned and fled to their tents.The Ark of God was captured, and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were killed.A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battlefield and arrived at Shiloh later that same day. He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head to show his grief.

Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword, because he was so angry with his own people— his special possession.Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths.

Eli’s daughter in law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near her time of delivery. When she heard that the Ark of God had been captured and that her father in law and husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth.She died in childbirth, but before she passed away the midwives tried to encourage her.“ Don’t be afraid,” they said.“ You have a baby boy!” But she did not answer or pay attention to them.She named the child Ichabod( which means“ Where is the glory?”), for she said,“ Israel’s glory is gone.” She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father in law and husband were dead.Then she said,“ The glory has departed from Israel, for the Ark of God has been captured.”

That is why I have disgraced your priests; I have decreed complete destruction for Jacob and shame for Israel.

Why provoke my anger by burning incense to the idols you have made here in Egypt? You will only destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and mockery for all the nations of the earth.Have you forgotten the sins of your ancestors, the sins of the kings and queens of Judah, and the sins you and your wives committed in Judah and Jerusalem?To this very hour you have shown no remorse or reverence. No one has chosen to follow my word and the decrees I gave to you and your ancestors before you.“ Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to destroy every one of you!I will take this remnant of Judah— those who were determined to come here and live in Egypt— and I will consume them. They will fall here in Egypt, killed by war and famine. All will die, from the least to the greatest. They will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery.

It was because the Lord could no longer bear all the disgusting things you were doing that he made your land an object of cursing— a desolate ruin without inhabitants— as it is today.

All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice.“ So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin.

His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying,‘ May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!’