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?
15He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;