19. What will they do when the disasters come?
20. Look! A plague of famine has been sent out, and the distress it inflicts is like a whip, a punishment for discipline.
21. But in the midst of all these, they won’t turn from their sins and won’t keep the plagues in mind.
22. Look! In a short time provisions will be so cheap on earth that people will think that peace has been established for them, but then disasters will blossom all over the earth—the sword and famine.
23. They will lack life’s necessities, and the sword will scatter those who survive the famine.
24. The dead will be tossed out like dung, and there will be no one to console them, for the earth will be left abandoned, and its cities will be cast down.
25. No farmer will be left to till the ground or to sow seed upon it.
26. Trees will yield fruit, but who will harvest them?
27. Grapes will ripen, but who will gather them? There will be vast, empty wastelands.
28. A person will want to see another human being and hear his voice.
29. Ten will survive out of an entire city; out of a field only two who have hidden themselves in dense groves and fissures in the rocks will be left.
30. As three or four olives are left on individual trees in an olive orchard,