19. My bowels, my bowels! I am pained [at] the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul--a shout of battle!
20. Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment--my curtains.
21. Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?
22. For my people [are] foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons [are] they, yea, they [are] not intelligent, Wise [are] they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
23. I looked [to] the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
24. I have looked [to] the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.
25. I have looked, and lo, man is not, And all fowls of the heavens have fled.
26. I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place [is] a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.