For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it would be in the end.

在哈博高速公路上行驶几天的路程都能看到这座城市陷入一片火海，这种结局正是我们能预料到的。

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Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

犹大人攻打耶路撒冷，将城攻取，用刀杀了城内的人，并且放火烧城。

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Many of the buildings in the west of the city are on fire.

该城西部的许多建筑都着火了。

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