4 Except for David and Hezekiah and Josiah,

all of them were great sinners,

for they abandoned the law of the Most High;

the kings of Judah came to an end.

5 Theyc gave their power to others,

and their glory to a foreign nation,

6 who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary,

and made its streets desolate,

as Jeremiah had foretold.d

7 For they had mistreated him,

who even in the womb had been consecrated a prophet,

to pluck up and ruin and destroy,

and likewise to build and to plant.