⁹ In that day ^[a]their strong cities will be like ^[b]forsaken places in the forest,
Or like ^[c]branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;
And ^[d]the land will be a desolation.
¹⁰ For ^(A)you have forgotten the ^(B)God of your salvation
And have not remembered the ^(C)rock of your strong defense.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine branches of a strange god.
¹¹ In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the ^(D)morning you cause your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will ^(E)be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

¹² Alas, the uproar of many peoples
^(F)Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rumble on like the ^(G)rumbling of mighty waters!
¹³ The ^(H)nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will ^(I)rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
And be pursued ^(J)like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a whirlwind.
¹⁴ At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning ^(K)they are no more.
^[e]Such will be the portion of those who pillage us
And the lot of those who plunder us.