¹⁰ The fortified city stands desolate,^(A)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken^(B) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,^(C)
    there they lie down;^(D)
    they strip its branches bare.

¹¹ When its twigs are dry, they are broken off^(A)
    and women come and make fires^(B) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;^(C)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator^(D) shows them no favor.^(E)