²⁶ I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert;^(A)
    all its towns lay in ruins^(B)
    before the Lord, before his fierce anger.^(C)

“The whole land will be ruined,^(D)
    though I will not destroy^(E) it completely.

¹¹ It will be made a wasteland,^(A)
    parched and desolate before me;^(B)
the whole land will be laid waste
    because there is no one who cares.
¹² Over all the barren heights in the desert
    destroyers will swarm,
for the sword^(C) of the Lord^(D) will devour^(E)
    from one end of the land to the other;^(F)
    no one will be safe.^(G)