³¹ I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.^(A)

³² I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.^(A)

Decision to Restore the Walls

¹⁷ Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”^(A)