^{38 Ref} A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

^{39 Ref} Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

^{40 Ref} As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.