¹² “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(A)In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be ^(B)habitations of shepherds ^(C)resting their flocks.

^13 (A)In the cities of the hill country, ^(B)in the cities of the Shephelah, ^(C)and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, ^(D)the places about Jerusalem, ^(E)and in the cities of Judah, ^(F)flocks shall again pass under the hands ^(G)of the one who counts them, says the Lord.