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I beheld, The earth; and lo! it was waste and wild, - The heavens also and their light was not:

I beheld, The mountains, and lo! they were trembling, - And all the hills, had been violently moved:

I beheld, And lo! there was no human being, - Yea, all the birds of the heavens! had fled:

I beheld, And lo! the garden-land, was a desert, - And, all its cities, had been broken down, Because of Yahweh, Because of the glow of his anger!

For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become - Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.

For this cause, shall the land mourn, and the heavens above be overcast: Because I have spoken have purposed, and have not repented nor will I turn back therefrom.

At the noise of horseman and archer, The whole city is in flight, They have entered dark thickets, Yea unto the crags, have they gone up, - Every city, is forsaken, There remaineth not in them a man!