26 I looked, and behold, [a]the (A)fruitful land was a wilderness,
And all its cities were pulled down
Before the Lord, before His fierce anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:26 Or Carmel

26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert;(A)
    all its towns lay in ruins(B)
    before the Lord, before his fierce anger.(C)

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Therefore the land (A)mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky,
And even the fish of the sea [a]disappear.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:3 Lit are taken away

Because of this the land dries up,(A)
    and all who live in it waste away;(B)
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the fish in the sea are swept away.(C)

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