Desecrated Graves Intensify Defeat

Bones are spread under the lights they served

At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

The passage does not authorize grave desecration. Kings, priests, prophets, and ordinary dead are exposed together. The heavenly bodies are the former objects of worship, not a cue for later vandalism of cemeteries.

Survivors are described as preferring death

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

The sentence describes crushed survivors; it does not encourage suicide or treat traumatized people as cursed. 'Evil family' is this book's charged remnant language, not a warrant to call later Jews a cursed family.