11 At this I said: “How long, O Jehovah?”*+ Then he said: “Until the cities actually crash in ruins, to be without an inhabitant, and the houses be without earthling man, and the ground itself is ruined into a desolation;+

14 And an uproar has risen among your people,+ and your own fortified cities will all be despoiled,+ as with the despoiling by Shalʹman of the house of Arʹbel, in the day of battle [when] a mother herself was dashed to pieces alongside [her] own sons.+

11 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘There is an adversary even round about the land,+ and he will certainly bring your* strength down from you, and your dwelling towers will actually be plundered.’+

11 And I will cut off the cities of your land and tear down all your fortified places.+

13 And the land must become a desolate waste on account of its inhabitants, because of the fruit of their dealings.+