²⁵ I looked, and no man was left;^(A)
all the birds of the sky had fled.^(B)

⁴ How long will the land mourn^(A)
and the grass of every field wither?
Because of the evil of its residents,
animals and birds have been swept away,
for the people have said,
“He cannot see what our end will be.”^[a](B)