You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to the LORD your God.
It shall be a heap forever.
It shall not be built again.
Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,