¹⁰ The ruined city^(A) lies desolate;^(B)
    the entrance to every house is barred.

¹² The city is left in ruins,^(A)
    its gate^(B) is battered to pieces.

⁵ He humbles those who dwell on high,
    he lays the lofty city low;
he levels it to the ground^(A)
    and casts it down to the dust.^(B)

¹⁰ The fortified city stands desolate,^(A)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken^(B) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,^(C)
    there they lie down;^(D)
    they strip its branches bare.