8The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.
9The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.
10Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
11Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
12And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
13Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near.
14The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
