Jeremiah 4:23-31 - Jeremiah's Vision Of The Coming Destruction

23 I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and [they were] without their light. 24 I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro. 25 I looked and behold, there was no person, and all of the birds of the sky had fled. 26 I looked and behold, the fruitful land [was] a desert, and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of {his burning anger}.

27 For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation. 28 Because of this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will become dark. Because I have spoken, I have planned, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it."

29 From the sound of a horseman and {an archer} every town flees, they enter in the thickets and among the rocks they climb. Every town [is] forsaken, and there is no person [who] lives in them. 30 And you, devastated one, what [do] you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself [with] ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. [Your] lovers reject you; they seek your life. 31 For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like [a woman who] bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers."