25  I looked, and behold, there was no man,

and all the ^xbirds of the air had fled.

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.”

3  “I will sweep away man and beast;

I will sweep away the birds of the heavens

and the ^bfish of the sea,

and the rubble¹ with the wicked.

I will cut off mankind

from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.