⁷ Your country is desolate,^(A)
    your cities burned with fire;^(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners^(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.^(D)
8 Daughter Zion^(E) is left^(F)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut^(G) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
⁹ Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,^(H)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.^(I)

“Until the cities lie ruined^(B)
    and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted^(C)
    and the fields ruined and ravaged,^(D)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away^(E)
    and the land is utterly forsaken.^(F)
13 And though a tenth remains^(G) in the land,
    it will again be laid waste.^(H)
But as the terebinth and oak
    leave stumps^(I) when they are cut down,
    so the holy^(J) seed will be the stump in the land.”^(K)

¹⁷ But I will restore you to health
    and heal^(A) your wounds,’
declares the Lord,
‘because you are called an outcast,^(B)
    Zion for whom no one cares.’^(C)