²⁵ “‘Have you not heard?^(A)
    Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned^(B) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(C)
26 Their people, drained of power,^(D)
    are dismayed^(E) and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,^(F)
like grass sprouting on the roof,
    scorched^(G) before it grows up.

¹⁶ May grain^(A) abound throughout the land;
    on the tops of the hills may it sway.
May the crops^(B) flourish like Lebanon^(C)
    and thrive^[a] like the grass of the field.^(D)

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained^(A) it.
In days of old I planned^(B) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(C)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(D) sprouting on the roof,^(E)
    scorched^[a] before it grows up.