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12 Beat your breasts in mourning
    for the pleasant fields and the fruitful vines,
13 for the soil of my people
    overgrown with thorns and briars,
and for all the joyful houses
    in this city of revelry.
14 The citadel[a] will be abandoned
    and the crowded streets will be deserted;
the hill and the watchtower will become wasteland forever,
    in which wild asses may frolic and flocks may pasture,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:14 Citadel: Hebrew, Ophel, the southern part of the hill of Zion.