## For the fortified city is desolate, the habitation is deserted and forsaken like the wilderness ##

AT: "The cities that were strong and had many people living in them will become empty like a wilderness."

## When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them ##

AT: "When the branches wither, women will come and break them off and make fires with them." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## this is not a people of understanding ##

AT: "this is not a people who understands Yahweh or his law." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

## Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them ##

"Because they do not understand, Yahweh, the one who made them, will not show mercy to them."