8. The highways shall be deserted, the wayfaring man shall have ceased. He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he respected no man.
9. The earth shall mourn and languish, Leḇanon shall be ashamed. Sharon shall be withered like a desert, and Bashan and Karmel be shaking.
10. “Now I rise up,” declares יהוה. “Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.
11. “You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble, your spirit devours you like fire.
12. “And peoples shall be like the burnings of lime, like thorns cut up they are burned in the fire.
13. “You who are afar off, hear what I shall do; and you who are near, know My might.”
14. Sinners in Tsiyon shall be afraid; trembling shall grip the defiled ones, “Who of us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who of us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15. He who walks righteously and speaks what is straight, he who rejects the gain of oppressions, who keeps his hands from accepting bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil –
16. he shall inhabit the heights; strongholds of rocks be his refuge. His bread shall be given him, his water be steadfast.
17. Your eyes shall see the Sovereign in His comeliness, see a land that is far off.
18. Your heart ponders fear, “Where is the scribe? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
19. No longer shall you see a fierce people, a people of too deep a lip to hear, of a jabbering tongue no one understands.