He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.