⁶ I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and ^(A)briers and thorns shall grow up;
^(B)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

²⁶ I looked, and behold, the ^(A)fruitful land was a desert,
    and all its cities were laid in ruins
    before the Lord, before ^(B)his fierce anger.

^12 (A)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,
^13 (B)for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers,
^(C)yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the exultant city.
¹⁴ For the palace is forsaken,
    the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
    will become dens forever,
^(D)a joy of wild donkeys,
    a pasture of flocks;