²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained^(A) it.
In days of old I planned^(B) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(C)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(D) sprouting on the roof,^(E)
    scorched^[a] before it grows up.

²⁸ “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go^(F)
    and how you rage^(G) against me.