^{11 Ref} Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

^{12 Ref} and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

^{13 Ref} And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.