20. Destruction upon destruction is cried, for all the land is ravaged. Suddenly my tents are ravaged – my curtains in a moment.
21. How long shall I see a banner, and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?
22. “For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are stupid children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
23. I looked at the earth, and saw it was formless and empty. And the heavens, they had no light.
24. I looked at the mountains, and saw they shook, and all the hills were swaying.
25. I looked, and saw there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled.
26. I looked, and saw the garden land was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of יהוה, by His burning displeasure.
27. For thus said יהוה, “All the earth shall be a ruin, but I shall not make a complete end.
28. “On account of this, let the earth mourn and the heavens above be dark, because I have spoken, because I have purposed and shall not relent, nor do I turn back from it.”