⁹ In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.^(A) And all will be desolation.

¹⁹ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths^(A) over you and its vast waters cover you,^(B)