8 The highways lie waste,the wayfaring man ceases.He has broken the covenant,he has despised the cities,he has no regard for man.
9 The earth mourns and languishes;Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down.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 be lifted up.
11 You have conceived chaff,you shall bring forth stubble;My breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 The people shall be burned to lime,as thorns cut up are burned in the fire.”
13 Hear what I have done, you who are far away;and you who are near, acknowledge My might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:“Who among us can live with the continual fire?Who among us can live with everlasting burning?”