³ A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like ^(A)the Garden of Eden before them,
^(B)And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.

³ For the Lord will ^(A)comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert ^(B)like the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

¹⁹ O Lord, ^(A)to You I cry out;
For ^(B)fire has devoured the ^[a]open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
²⁰ The beasts of the field also ^(C)cry out to You,
For ^(D)the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the ^[b]open pastures.

^4 (A)What the chewing ^[a]locust left, the ^(B)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

⁵ Awake, you ^(C)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
^(D)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
⁶ For ^(E)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
^(F)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a ^[b]fierce lion.
⁷ He has ^(G)laid waste My vine,
And ^[c]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.