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The true point of the comparison will not appear until the crop is over, and the lodge forsaken by the keeper. Then the poles fall down or lean every way, and those green boughs with which it is shaded will have been scattered by the wind leaving only a ragged, sprawling wreck, — a most affecting type of utter desolation — "as Sodom, and like unto Gomorrah."

(Thomson's "The, Land and the Book. ")

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KJV: And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

WEB: The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.