¹² Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(A)
    the temple^(B) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(C)

²⁶ Come against her from afar.^(A)
    Break open her granaries;
    pile her up like heaps of grain.^(B)
Completely destroy^(C) her
    and leave her no remnant.

² But the days are coming,”
    declares the Lord,
“when I will sound the battle cry^(A)
    against Rabbah^(B) of the Ammonites;
it will become a mound of ruins,^(C)
    and its surrounding villages will be set on fire.
Then Israel will drive out
    those who drove her out,^(D)”
says the Lord.

¹¹ “I will make Jerusalem a heap^(A) of ruins,
    a haunt of jackals;^(B)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah^(C)
    so no one can live there.”^(D)

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.^(C)

²⁵ “‘Have you not heard?^(A)
    Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned^(B) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(C)