^{9 Ref} Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

^{10 Ref} Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

^{11 Ref} And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.