10  “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,

and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness,

because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,

and the lowing of cattle is not heard;

both the ^lbirds of the air and the beasts

have fled and are gone.

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.