²⁸ and has lived in desolate cities,
    in houses that none should inhabit,
    which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

¹⁴ with kings and counselors of the earth
    who ^(A)rebuilt ruins for themselves,

^18 (A)Who is a God like you, ^(B)pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    ^(C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
^(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.

¹² Therefore because of you
    ^(A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem ^(B)shall become a heap of ruins,
    and ^(C)the mountain of the house ^(D)a wooded height.

³⁷ and Babylon shall become ^(A)a heap of ruins,
    ^(B)the haunt of jackals,
^(C)a horror ^(D)and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.

^11 (A)I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
    ^(B)a lair of jackals,
^(C)and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
    without inhabitant.”

⁸ Woe to those who ^(A)join house to house,
    who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
    and you are made to dwell alone
    in the midst of the land.
⁹ The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
^(B)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
    large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
^10 (C)For ten acres^[a] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
    and a ^(D)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”^[b]

¹⁵ In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
    ^(A)sulfur is scattered over his habitation.