Sirach 16:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ A city will be populated
through one intelligent person,
    but a tribe of lawless people
    can transform it into a desert.

⁵ My eye has seen many such things,
    and my ear has heard more extraordinary matters than these.
⁶ A fire will be kindled
in an assembly of sinners,
    and wrath will flash forth
    in a disobedient nation.