The abandonment of the city—with palaces forsaken and the bustling city emptied of inhabitants—represents the ultimate expression of judgment in which civilization itself collapses and human habitation is abandoned. This verse portrays the judgment as so total that not only individual people but cities themselves will become desolate, reversing the processes of urbanization and civilization. The reference to wild asses taking over and flocks pasturing in the ruins indicates that the land will revert to natural vegetation and wild animal habitation rather than human cultivation. The verse emphasizes that the judgment extends beyond human suffering to the dismantling of the infrastructure of civilization itself.

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