With none to inhabit!
Gird ye with sackcloth for this, 8
Howl and lament,
For the glow of the wrath of the Lord
Turns not from us.
These lines are followed by a verse with an introduction to itself, and therefore too separate from the context, and indeed too general to have belonged to so vivid a song:—
9. And it shall be in that day—Rede of the Lord—
The heart of the king shall perish,
And the heart of the princes,
And the priests shall be aghast