9. The land mourns and languishes;Lebanon is confounded and withers away;Sharon is like a desert,and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10. “Now I will arise,” says the Lord,“now I will lift myself up;now I will be exalted.
11. You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;your breath is a fire that will consume you.
12. And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
13. Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid;trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire?Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15. He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,who despises the gain of oppressions,who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,