² Why, when I came, was there no man?
Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Indeed with My ^(A)rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
And die of thirst.

¹⁵ I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
And dry up all their vegetation;
I will make the rivers coastlands,
And I will dry up the pools.

⁹ Therefore, as I live,”
Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely ^(A)Moab shall be like Sodom,
And ^(B)the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
^(C)Overrun^[a] with weeds and saltpits,
And a ^[b]perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”

^4 (A)He rebukes the sea and makes it dry,
And dries up all the rivers.
^(B)Bashan and Carmel wither,
And the flower of Lebanon wilts.

²⁰ The beasts of the field also ^(A)cry out to You,
For ^(B)the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the ^[a]open pastures.

^12 (A)I will make the rivers dry,
And ^(B)sell the land into the hand of the wicked;
I will make the land waste, and all that is in it,
By the hand of aliens.
I, the Lord, have spoken.”