²⁶ I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness,
and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord,
and by his fierce anger.
²⁷ For thus hath the Lord said,
The whole land shall be desolate;
yet will I 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 from it.