These final verses, copied from Isaiah 9, continue the description of the destruction that is coming. The imagery of darkness is reiterated. The imagery of the agricultural fire is repeated, but now “people shall be as the fuel of the fire,” not stubble. It is a devastation so complete that all are included.
The famine that comes after will be great. There will not be enough to eat. Even after all of this destruction, it will not yet be over. The poetic line is repeated that “for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.”