⁹ The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
^(A)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
    large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

¹¹ Therefore because you ^(A)trample on^[a] the poor
    and you exact taxes of grain from him,
^(B)you have built houses of hewn stone,
    but you shall not dwell in them;
^(C)you have planted pleasant vineyards,
    but you shall not drink their wine.

¹⁴ The Lord of hosts ^(A)has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely ^(B)this iniquity will not be atoned for you ^(C)until you die,”
    says the Lord God of hosts.

^10 (A)For the fortified city is solitary,
    a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
    there it lies down and strips its branches.

¹¹ Then I said, ^(A)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until ^(B)cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is a desolate waste,
¹² and the Lord removes people far away,
    and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.