And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Till [the] cities be made desolate, without dweller, and houses without man. And the land shall be left desert,
For why Jerusalem fell down, and Judah fell down altogether; for the tongue of them, and the findings of them, were against the Lord, for to stir to wrath the eyes of his majesty.
For why the house is left, the multitude of the city is forsaken; darknesses and groping be made on [the] dens, till into without end. The joy of wild asses is the pasture of flocks;
For that that thou were forsaken, and hated, and none was that passed by thee, I shall set thee into pride, that is, glory and honour, of worlds, joy in generation and into generation.
For the Lord saith these things on the house of the king of Judah; Gilead, thou art to me the head of the Lebanon; credence be not given to me, if I set not thee a wilderness, cities unhabitable.
A lion shall go up from his den, and the robber of folks shall raise himself. He is gone out of his place, to set thy land into wilderness; thy cities shall be destroyed, abiding still without dweller.
The Lord of hosts, God of Israel, saith these things, Ye saw all this evil, which I brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and lo! those [or they] be forsaken today, and no dweller is in them;
in all your dwellings. Cities shall be forsaken, and high things shall be destroyed, and shall be scattered; and your altars shall perish, and shall be broken. And your idols shall cease to exist, and your temples of idols shall be all-broken, and your works shall be done away.
And I heard one of [the] holy angels speaking; and one holy angel said to another, I know not to whom speaking, How long the vision, and the continual sacrifice, and the sin of desolation, [or discomfort], which is made, and the saintuary, and the host, shall be defouled?
forsooth I shall scatter you into folks, or into heathen men, and I shall draw out of the sheath the sword after you, and your land shall be forsaken, and your cities shall be cast down.
In that day a parable shall be taken on you, and a song shall be sung with sweetness of men, saying, By robbing we be destroyed; a part of my people is changed; how shall he go away from me, when he turneth again that shall part your countries?
And as the Lord was glad before upon you, and did well to you, and multiplied you; so he shall be glad to lose [or scatter] you, and to destroy you, that ye be taken away from the land, to which thou shalt enter to wield.