10. "Now, I will rise up!" says the Lord. "Now I will be exalted! Now I will lift myself up!"
11. You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.
12. And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.
13. "You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!"
14. The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?
15. The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.
16. Such a one will live on high; the fortification of rocks will be his lofty place. Bread has been given to him; his waters are reliable.
17. His eyes will see the king in his elegance; they will discern the land from far away.
18. Your heart will meditate on fear. Where are the learned? Where are those who ponder the words of the law? Where are the teachers of little ones?
19. You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom.