Jeremiah 4:19–26

19  My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war. 20  Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment. 21  How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? 22  For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23  I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24  I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently. 25  I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the heavens were fled. 26  I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.