8 The highways are deserted,no travellers are on the roads.The treaty is broken,its witnesses are despised,no one is respected.
9 The land dries up and wastes away,Lebanon is ashamed and withers;Sharon is like the Arabah,and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.
10 ‘Now will I arise,’ says the Lord.‘Now will I be exalted;now will I be lifted up.
11 You conceive chaff,you give birth to straw;your breath is a fire that consumes you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes;like cut thorn-bushes they will be set ablaze.’
13 You who are far away, hear what I have done;you who are near, acknowledge my power!
14 The sinners in Zion are terrified;trembling grips the godless:‘Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire?Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?’