7 Heroes cry in the streets.Messengers of peace cry bitterly.
8 Highways are deserted.Travelers stop traveling.Agreements are broken.Witnesses are rejected.People are no longer respected.
9 The country grieves and wastes away.Lebanon is ashamed and is decaying.Sharon has become like a wilderness.Bashan and Carmel are shaken.
10 The Lord says, “Now I will arise.Now I will get up.Now I will be lifted up.”
11 You will be pregnant with hay.You will give birth to straw.Your breath will be a fire which will burn you up.
12 People will be cremated.They will be set on fire like dry thornbushes.
13 Hear what I have done, you people who are far away!Acknowledge my might, you people who are near!