² Why was there ^(A)no man when I came?
When I called, why was there none to answer?
Is My ^(B)hand so short that it cannot ransom?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, I ^(C)dry up the sea with My rebuke;
I ^(D)make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink for lack of water
And die of thirst.

² “I will completely ^(A)end all things
From the face of the ground,” declares Yahweh.

³ “I will end ^(A)man and beast;
I will end the ^(B)birds of the sky
And the fish of the sea
And the ^[a](C)ruins along with the wicked;
And I will cut off man from the face of the ground,” declares Yahweh.