LEB(i)
23 I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and they were without their light.
24 I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro.
25 I looked and behold, there was no person, and all of the birds* of the sky had fled.
26 I looked and behold, the fruitful land was a desert,* and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of ⌊his burning anger⌋.*
27 For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.
28 Because of this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will become dark. Because I have spoken, I have planned, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it."
29 From the sound of a horseman and ⌊an archer⌋* every town flees, they enter in the thickets and among the rocks they climb. Every town is forsaken, and there is no person who lives in them.