⁷ A lion has gone up from his thicket;^(A)
a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has left his lair
to make your land a waste.
Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.^(B)

¹⁶ They have made their land a horror,^(A)
a perpetual object of scorn;^[a](B)
everyone who passes by it will be horrified^(C)
and shake his head.^(D)