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)

¹¹ I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,^(A)
a jackals’ den.^(B)
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.

¹⁹ Get your bags ready for exile,
inhabitant of Daughter Egypt!^(A)
For Memphis will become a desolation,
uninhabited ruins.

⁹ Make Moab a salt marsh,^[a](A)
for she will run away;^[b]
her towns will become a desolation,
without inhabitant.^(B)

³⁷ Babylon will become a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den,
a desolation and an object of scorn,^(A)
without inhabitant.^(B)