8 Highways are empty,there are no travelers.Treaties are broken,witnesses are despised,human life is treated with disrespect.
9 The land dries up and withers away;the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays.Sharon is like the desert;Bashan and Carmel are parched.
10 “Now I will rise up,” says the Lord.“Now I will exalt myself;now I will magnify myself.
11 You conceive straw,you give birth to chaff;your breath is a fire that destroys you.
12 The nations will be burned to ashes;like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.
13 You who are far away, listen to what I have done!You who are close by, recognize my strength!”
14 Sinners are afraid in Zion;panic grips the godless.They say, ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire?Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’