22. For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.
23. I gazed upon the earth, and behold, it was empty and brought to nothing. And I gazed upon the heavens, but there was no light in them.
24. I watched the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills were shaken.
25. I looked, and there was no man. And all the flying things of the air had gone away.
26. I gazed, and behold, Carmel was a desert, and all its cities were destroyed before the face of the Lord, and before the face of the wrath of his fury."
27. For thus says the Lord: "All the earth will be desolate, but I will not yet bring about its consummation.
28. The earth will mourn, and the heavens will lament from above. For I have spoken, I have decided, and I have not regretted. Neither will I be turned away from it.