22 “For My people are fools;they do not know Me.They are foolish children,without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil,but they do not know how to do what is good.”
23 I looked at the earth,and it was formless and empty. I looked to the heavens,and their light was gone.
24 I looked at the mountains,and they were quaking; all the hills shook.
25 I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the sky had fled.
26 I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness. All its cities were torn downbecause of the Lordand His burning anger.
27 For this is what the Lord says:The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.
28 Because of this, the earth will mourn; the skies above will grow dark. I have spoken; I have planned,and I will not relent or turn back from it.