You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza<n id="1" /> and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. It will be an abandoned ruin<n id="2" /> forever &#8211; it must never be rebuilt again.

<p class="poetry">I will leave you in the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">you and all the fish of your waterways;p> <p class="poetry">you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.p>