God's terrible voice in the city

And is it then to be wondered at, if the Lord pluck down the hedge thereof, that it might be eaten up by the wild Boar and Beast of the field, if he break down the wall thereof, and make it waste and desolate? Is it to be wondered at, if he with-hold the Clouds that they rain not on it, and suffer briars and thorns to spring up in it, where the Plants did grow? The Vine when it is unfruitful,¹ is the most unuseful of all Trees, it is fit for nothing but the fire, and the Lord hath threatened to gather the unfruitful branches, and to cast them into the fire and burn them;² and the Earth which drinketh in the rain that often falleth upon it, and instead of herbs meet for the use of him by whom it is dressed, bringeth forth nothing but briars and thorns,³ God rejecteth ⟨p. 125⟩and curseth, and in the end burneth.

And is it then to be wondred at, if the Lord pluck down the hedge thereof, that it might be eaten up by the wilde Boar and Beast of the field, if he break down the wall thereof, and make it waste and desolate? Is it to be wondred at, if he with-hold the Clouds that they rain not on it, and suffer briars and thorns to spring up in it, where the Plants did grow? The Vine when it is unfruitful,¹ is the most unuseful of all Trees, it is fit for nothing but the fire, and the Lord hath threatned to gather the unfruitfull branches, and to cast them into the fire and burn them;² and the Earth which drinketh in the rain that often falleth upon it, and instead of herbs meet for the use of him by whom it is dressed, bringeth forth nothing but bryars and thorns,³ God rejecteth ⟨p. 125⟩and curseth, and in the end burneth.