17 “Israel is a scattered sheep.+ Lions themselves have done the dispersing.+ In the first instance the king of As·syrʹi·a has devoured him,+ and in this latter instance Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon has gnawed on his bones.+

24 And I will pay back to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chal·deʹa* all their badness that they have committed in Zion before the eyes of YOU people,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.