“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.^(C)

⁵ He humbles those who dwell on high,
    he lays the lofty city low;
he levels it to the ground^(A)
    and casts it down to the dust.^(B)

¹⁰ The fortified city stands desolate,^(A)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken^(B) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,^(C)
    there they lie down;^(D)
    they strip its branches bare.