“Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.”
"And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'" — The *temple's destruction* is foreseen: *bayit ha-zeh yihye la-shammua ve-shrek*, literally "this house will become a desolation and a hissing". Passersby will *wonder* and *mock*, questioning God's actions. This verse anticipates the *587 BCE destruction of the temple by Babylon*.
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