⁹ In that day ^[a]their strong cities will be like ^[b]forsaken places in the forest,
Or like ^[c]branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;
And ^[d]the land will be a desolation.
¹⁰ For ^(A)you have forgotten the ^(B)God of your salvation
And have not remembered the ^(C)rock of your strong defense.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine branches of a strange god.
¹¹ In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the ^(D)morning you cause your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will ^(E)be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.