I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

They will rebuild the perpetual ruins and restore the places that were desolate; they will reestablish the ruined cities, the places that have been desolate since ancient times.

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

They will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”

Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

We have overpowered them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. We have shattered them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be humiliated and disgraced!

So do not be excessively righteous or excessively wise; otherwise you might be disappointed.

Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.