^43 (A)Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where ^(B)no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.

⁶ Neither did they say, ‘Where is the Lord,
Who ^(A)brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through ^(B)the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and pits,
Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no one dwelt?’

^20 (A)It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

²⁹ And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every ^(A)purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
^(B)To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.

^37 (A)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
^(B)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.

¹² Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;
She who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a ^(A)wilderness,
A dry land and a desert.