6. There will be times of security for you —a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.
7. Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;the messengers of peace weep bitterly.
8. The highways are deserted;travel has ceased.An agreement has been broken, cities despised,and human life disregarded.
9. The land mourns and withers; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.Sharon is like a desert;Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10. “Now I will rise up,” says the Lord.“Now I will lift Myself up.Now I will be exalted.
11. You will conceive chaff; you will give birth to stubble.Your breath is fire that will consume you.
12. The peoples will be burned to ashes,like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
13. You who are far off, hear what I have done;you who are near, know My strength.”
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid;trembling seizes the ungodly:“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames? ”