23
Their corpses will be thrown out like garbage, and there will be no one left to comfort the living. The earth will be deserted and its cities demolished.
21
The time is coming when food will be so cheap that people will think a time of peace and plenty has arrived. But then disasters will spring up everywhere - wars, famine, and great confusion.
22
Many people on earth will starve to death, and those who escape starvation will be killed in war.
23
Their corpses will be thrown out like garbage, and there will be no one left to comfort the living. The earth will be deserted and its cities demolished.
24
There will be no one left to plow the land or plant it.
25
Trees will bear their fruit, but there will be no one left to pick it.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.