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11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”

And he said:

“Until cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without men,
    and the land is utterly desolate,
12 and the Lord removes men far away,
    and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump remains standing
    when it is felled.”
The holy seed is its stump.

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