Myself take vengeance?

Raise for the mountains a wail,[400] 10

For the meads of the pasture a dirge!

They are waste, with never a man[401]

Nor hear the lowing of cattle.

From the birds of heaven to the beasts

They have fled, they are gone.

I will make Jerusalem heaps, 11

Of jackals the lair,

And the townships of Judah lay waste,