^{23 Ref} I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

^{24 Ref} I have looked `to' the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.

^{25 Ref} I have looked, and lo, man is not, And all fowls of the heavens have fled.

^{26 Ref} I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place `is' a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.

^{27 Ref} For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.

^{28 Ref} For this doth the land mourn, And black have been the heavens above, because I have spoken -- I have purposed, And I have not repented, Nor do I turn back from it.

^{29 Ref} From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.