Jeremiah 9:9-11

New International Version - UK

¹⁰ I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.
They are desolate and untravelled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

¹¹ ‘I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
    a haunt of jackals;
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah
    so that no one can live there.’