8 Highways are desolate; travel has ceased; covenant is broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for humanity.
9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken bare.
10 “Now I will arise,” says Adonai. “Now I will be exalted. Now I will lift Myself up.
11 You conceive chaff, you will give birth to stubble. My breath is a fire that will consume you.
12 Then peoples will be burned as lime, like thorns cut down, burned in the fire.
13 Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done, and you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
14 Sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can live with the consuming fire?” “Who among us can live with everlasting burnings?”