13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
14For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.
16Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.
18And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
19But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
