^7 (A)Your country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

¹⁷ “Israel is like ^(A)scattered sheep;
^(B)The lions have driven him away.
First ^(C)the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this ^(D)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”