⁶ I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without people, without inhabitants.^(A)
7 I said, “Surely the city^[a] will fear me;
    it will accept correction;
it will not lose sight^[b]
    of all that I have brought upon it.”
But they were the more eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.^(B)

²⁵ Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them;
    the mountains quaked,
and their corpses were like refuse
    in the streets.
For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.^(A)