Ben Sira 50:8

8 They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.

Ben Sira 50:8 In-Context

6 For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and despised the fear of God.
7 So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange nation.
8 They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.
9 For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew.
10 It was Ezechiel that saw the glorious vision, which was shewn him upon the chariot of cherubims.
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