6. and he will be the stability of your times,abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;the fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.
7. Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
8. The highways lie waste;the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken;cities are despised;there is no regard for man.
9. The land mourns and languishes;Lebanon is confounded and withers away;Sharon is like a desert,and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10. “Now I will arise,” says the Lord,“now I will lift myself up;now I will be exalted.
11. You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;your breath is a fire that will consume you.
12. And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
13. Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid;trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire?Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15. He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,who despises the gain of oppressions,who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
16. he will dwell on the heights;his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.
17. Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
18. Your heart will muse on the terror:“Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute?Where is he who counted the towers?”
19. You will see no more the insolent people,the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.