<p class="poetry">No one will live there again;p> <p class="poetry">no one will ever reside there again.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No bedouin<n id="2" /> will camp<n id="3" /> there,p> <p class="poetry">no shepherds will rest their flocks<n id="4" /> there.p>

<p class="poetry">Grain is crushed,p> <p class="poetry">though one certainly does not thresh it forever.p> <p class="poetry">The wheel of one&#8217;s wagon rolls over it,p> <p class="poetry">but his horses do not crush it.p>

<p class="poetry">Night and day it will burn;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its smoke will ascend continually.p> <p class="poetry">Generation after generation it will be a wastelandp> <p class="poetry">and no one will ever pass through it again.p>

<p class="poetry">For I will not be hostile<n id="1" /> foreverp> <p class="poetry">or perpetually angry,p> <p class="poetry">for then man&#8217;s spirit would grow faint before me,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the life-giving breath I created.p>

<p class="poetry">he will swallow up death permanently.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> will wipe away the tears from every face,p> <p class="poetry">and remove his people&#8217;s disgrace from all the earth.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, the <sc>Lordsc> has announced it!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!p> <p class="poetry">You<n id="1" /> will see Jerusalem,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a peaceful settlement,p> <p class="poetry">a tent that stays put;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">its stakes will never be pulled up;p> <p class="poetry">none of its ropes will snap in two.p>