⁶ I will make it a wasteland,^(A)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns^(B) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain^(C) on it.”

⁹ “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
    destroying them with blight and mildew.^(A)
Locusts^(B) devoured your fig and olive trees,^(C)
    yet you have not returned^(D) to me,”
declares the Lord.