“Though you are like Gilead^(A) to me,
    like the summit of Lebanon,^(B)
I will surely make you like a wasteland,^(C)
    like towns not inhabited.

⁷ I will send destroyers^(A) against you,
    each man with his weapons,
and they will cut^(B) up your fine cedar beams
    and throw them into the fire.^(C)

³ Consider Assyria,^(A) once a cedar in Lebanon,^(B)
    with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;
it towered on high,
    its top above the thick foliage.^(C)