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)

“Until the cities lie ruined^(B)
    and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted^(C)
    and the fields ruined and ravaged,^(D)