Til the cities lie ruined

Til the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant,

until the houses are deserted, and the hills ravaged,

until I have sent every one far away,

and the land is forsaken.

And tho a tenth of it remain,

it too shall be laid to waste,

But as a terebinth tree or as an oak,

whose stump remain when it is cut down,

the Holy seed will be the stump in the land.