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? ”