²⁶ Their people, drained of power,^(A)
    are dismayed^(B) and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,^(C)
like grass sprouting on the roof,
    scorched^(D) before it grows up.

⁷ “At least there is hope for a tree:^(A)
    If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
    and its new shoots^(B) will not fail.^(C)