22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23. I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24. I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.
25. I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the heavens were fled.
26. I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.
27. For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.
28. For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.