he will dwell in ruined cities,
in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.

“O you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?

He has removed my brothers from me;
my acquaintances have abandoned me.

my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

Doth one say to a king, Abandoned one! Or, Lawless one! unto nobles?

because they've abandoned their pursuit of him and had no respect for any of his ways.