⁶ I will make it a wasteland,^(A)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns^(B) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain^(C) on it.”

⁴ The earth dries up^(A) and withers,^(B)
    the world languishes and withers,
    the heavens^(C) languish with the earth.^(D)

³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,^(A)
    and no spring rains^(B) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen^(C) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.^(D)