Now when an impure spirit is gone out of a man, he wanders through dry desert places, seeking rest, and findeth none:

But to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the market-places,

and love the uppermost places at feasts,

some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth; and they soon sprung up indeed, because they had no depth of earth;

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in several places: