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12 The city is left in ruins,
    its gates battered down.
13 Throughout the earth the story is the same—
    only a remnant is left,
like the stray olives left on the tree
    or the few grapes left on the vine after harvest.

14 But all who are left shout and sing for joy.
    Those in the west praise the Lord’s majesty.

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