TSK · Jeremiah 12:4

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land.

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: