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13 for the soil of my people
    overgrown with thorns and briars,
and for all the joyful houses
    in this city of revelry.
14 The citadel[a] will be abandoned
    and the crowded streets will be deserted;
the hill and the watchtower will become wasteland forever,
    in which wild asses may frolic and flocks may pasture,
15 until a spirit from on high
    is poured out upon us,
and the wilderness becomes an orchard
    and the fruitful field becomes a forest.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:14 Citadel: Hebrew, Ophel, the southern part of the hill of Zion.