¹¹ You trample the poor,
    stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent.
Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses,
    you will never live in them.
Though you plant lush vineyards,
    you will never drink wine from them.

⁷ Indeed, the Sovereign Lord never does anything
    until he reveals his plans to his servants the prophets.

¹¹ When the Lord gives the command,
    homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.

¹⁰ The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
    the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
    chewing on twigs and branches.

“Until their towns are empty,
    their houses are deserted,
    and the whole country is a wasteland;
¹² until the Lord has sent everyone away,
    and the entire land of Israel lies deserted.

⁶ I will make it a wild place
    where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,
    a place overgrown with briers and thorns.
I will command the clouds
    to drop no rain on it.