²³ In that day,^(A) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,^[a](B) there will be only briers and thorns.^{(C) 24} Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers^(D) and thorns.

⁹ I will summon^(A) all the peoples of the north^(B) and my servant^(C) Nebuchadnezzar^(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(F) and an everlasting ruin.^(G)

³ Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged^(A) and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,^(B)