4 The land has gone to mourning,+ has faded away. The productive land* has withered, has faded away. The high ones of the people of the land have withered.+

28 On this account the land will mourn,+ and the heavens above will certainly become dark.+ It is because I have spoken, I have considered, and I have not felt regret, nor shall I turn back from it.+

10 [The] field has been despoiled,+ [the] ground has gone to mourning;+ for [the] grain has been despoiled, [the] new wine has been dried up,+ [the] oil has faded away.+

8 Will it not be on this account that the land* will be agitated,+ and every inhabitant in it will have to mourn;+ and it will, all of it, certainly come up just like the Nile and be tossed and sink down like the Nile of Egypt?’+