Isa 24:4-6, Jer 14:2, Lam 2:6-7, 5:13, Mic 3:12 | ESV | STEP | The earth mourns and withers ; the world languishes and withers ; the highest people of the earth languish .

Isaiah 24:4-6

4 ^aThe earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and withers;
the highest people of the earth languish.
5 The earth lies ^bdefiled
under its inhabitants;
for ^cthey have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore ^da curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants ^esuffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.

Jeremiah 14:2

2 ^f“Judah mourns,
and ^gher gates languish;
her people lament on the ground,
and ^hthe cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Lamentations 2:6-7

6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins ⁱhis meeting place;
^jthe Lord has made Zion forget
festival and ^kSabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 ^lThe Lord has scorned his altar,
^mdisowned his sanctuary;
ⁿhe has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
^othey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.

Lamentations 5:13

13 Young men are compelled to ^pgrind at the mill,
and boys stagger ^qunder loads of wood.

Micah 3:12

12 Therefore because of you
^rZion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem ^sshall become a heap of ruins,
and ^tthe mountain of the house ^ua wooded height.