4  The earth mourns and withers;

the world languishes and withers;

the highest people of the earth languish.

9  The land mourns and languishes;

^xLebanon is confounded and withers away;

Sharon is like a desert,

and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

28  “For this the earth shall ^amourn,

and the heavens above be dark;

for I have spoken; I have purposed;

I have not relented, ^bnor will I turn back.”

4  How long will the land ^tmourn

and the grass of every field wither?

For the evil of those who dwell in it

the beasts and the ^ubirds are swept away,

because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

10  For the land is full of ^hadulterers;

because of the curse the land mourns,

and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.

Their course is evil,

and their might is not right.

3  Therefore the land mourns,

and all who dwell in it languish,

and also the beasts of the field

and the birds of the heavens,

and even the ^yfish of the sea are taken away.