I looked to the earth, and lo, chaos,

To the heavens, their light was gone,

I looked to the mountains, they quivered,

The hills were all shuddering.

I looked and behold not a man,

All the birds of the heavens had fled.

I looked for the gardens, lo desert,

All the townships were burning.

Or take a similar effect from the Oracle on the Philistines, Ch. XLVII. 2, 3.

Lo, the waters are up in the North,