¹² Why then have you broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?^(A)

⁴⁰ You have broken through all his walls;
    you have laid his strongholds in ruins.^(A)

¹³ Even if a tenth part remain in it,
    it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
    whose stump remains standing
    when it is felled.”^[a]
(The holy seed is its stump.)^(A)

⁶ Against a godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
    and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.^(A)