8. The highways lie waste,The traveling man ceases.He has broken the covenant,He has despised the cities,He regards no man.
9. The earth mourns and languishes,Lebanon is shamed and shriveled;Sharon is like a wilderness,And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10. “Now I will rise,” says the Lord;“Now I will be exalted,Now I will lift Myself up.
11. You shall conceive chaff,You shall bring forth stubble;Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12. And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
13. Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done;And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid;Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”