22“For My people are fools;
they have not known Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil,
but they know not how to do good.”
23I looked at the earth,
and it was formless and void;
I looked to the heavens,
and they had no light.
24I looked at the mountains,
and behold, they were quaking;
all the hills were swaying.
25I looked, and no man was left;
all the birds of the air had fled.
26I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert.
All its cities were torn down
before the LORD,
before His fierce anger.
27For this is what the LORD says:
“The whole land will be desolate,
but I will not finish its destruction.
— Jeremiah 4:22-27