9 Should I not punish them for these things?

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Should I not avenge myselfb

on such a nation as this?

10 I will raise weeping and a lament

over the mountains,

a dirge over the wilderness grazing land,

for they have been so scorched

that no one passes through.

The sound of cattle is no longer heard.

From the birds of the sky to the animals,c

everything has fled—they have gone away.