⁹ On that day ^[a]their strong cities will be like ^[b]abandoned places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And ^[c]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 refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.
¹¹ On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the ^(D)morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will ^(E)flee
On a day of illness and incurable pain.

¹² Oh, the uproar of many peoples
^(F)Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush 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 chased ^(J)like chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
¹⁴ At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning ^(K)they are gone.
This will be the ^[d]fate of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.