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.”

¹⁷ Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;^(A)
    lambs will feed^[a] among the ruins of the rich.

“‘Zion^(B) will be plowed like a field,
    Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(C)
    the temple hill^(D) a mound overgrown with thickets.’^[a](E)