¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities
the Lord demolished without compassion.^(A)
Let him hear an outcry in the morning^(B)
and a war cry at noontime

The one who gives the sun for light by day,
the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar^(A)—
the Lord of Armies is his name:
³⁶ If this fixed order departs from before me—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
only then will Israel’s descendants cease
to be a nation before me forever.^(B)

Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below explored,
will I reject all of Israel’s descendants
because of all they have done—
this is the Lord’s declaration.