Isaiah 42:15

I will make waste mountains and hills, thereby destroying the enemies, and dry up all their herbs, as a preliminary act of the final annihilation; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools, thereby making their land uninhabitable. The final Judgment of the world is always included in prophecies like that here given, where one act of the preliminary punishment is sketched. But while the enemies feel the wrath of the Lord, the believers feel the riches of His blessing.