^{9 Ref} Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

^{10 Ref} For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

^{11 Ref} I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.