²⁷ For thus says Yahweh, “All of the land will be a desolation,
    yet I will not make a complete desolation.
²⁸ Because of this the earth will mourn,
    and the heavens above will become dark.
Because I have spoken, I have planned,
    and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it.”
²⁹ From the sound of a horseman and an archer^[a] every town flees,
    they enter in the thickets and among the rocks they climb.
Every town is forsaken,
    and there is no person who lives in them.