10 See, I have commissioned you this day to be over the nations and over the kingdoms,+ in order to uproot and to pull down and to destroy and to tear down,+ to build and to plant.”+

14 This is what Jehovah has said against all my bad neighbors,*+ who are touching the hereditary possession that I caused my people, even Israel, to possess:+ “Here I am uprooting them from off their ground;+ and the house of Judah I shall uproot from the midst of them.+

9 here I am sending and I will take all the families of the north,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “even [sending] to Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon, my servant,+ and I will bring them against this land+ and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about;+ and I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of astonishment and something to whistle+ at and places devastated to time indefinite.+

4 “This is what you should say to him, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Look! What I have built up I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting, even all the land itself.+

8 “‘Look! The eyes of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom,+ and he will certainly annihilate it from upon the surface of the ground.+ Nevertheless, I shall not completely annihilate the house of Jacob,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

4 Finally Joʹnah started to enter into the city the walking distance of one day, and he kept proclaiming and saying: “Only forty days more, and Ninʹe·veh will be overthrown.”+