In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Yet the defenced city {shall be} desolate, {and} the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

For thou hast made of a city an heap; {of} a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. {quench: Heb. break}

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, {utterly...: Heb. desolate with desolation}

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. {as...: Heb. as the overthrowing}

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. {cormorant: or, pelican}

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. {turneth...: Heb. perverteth the face thereof}

And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great {man's} house burnt he with fire.

In mine ears {said} the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, {even} great and fair, without inhabitant. {In...: or, This is in mine ears, saith the LORD, etc} {Of a...: Heb. If not, etc}

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. {Hephzibah: that is, My delight is in her} {Beulah: that is, Married}

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I {am} the LORD.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers {and} streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. {high hill: Heb. lifted up, etc}

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.