9. The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10. “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “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 a fire that will devour you.
12. The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and 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 ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
15. He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
16. he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
17. Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
18. Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
19. You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.
20. Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.