2:3 Like fire they devour everything in their path;
a flame blazes behind them.
The land looks like the Garden of Eden
but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness –
for nothing escapes them!
9:10 I said,
“I will weep and mourn
I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness
because they are so scorched no one travels through them.
The sound of livestock is no longer heard there.
Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields
have fled and are gone.”
7:4 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw