¹¹ Then I said, ‘How long, O Lord?’ And he said:
‘Until cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is utterly desolate;
¹² until the Lord sends everyone far away,
    and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.
¹³ Even if a tenth part remains in it,
    it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
    whose stump remains standing
    when it is felled.’^[a]
The holy seed is its stump.