17. As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.
18. “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
19. My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can’t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20. Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
21. How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22. “For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
23. I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24. I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
25. I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
26. I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.