9. The earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10. Now will I rise,
11. You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13. Hear, you that are afar off, what I have done; and, you that are near, acknowledge my might.
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15. He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
16. He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the fortresses of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17. Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18. Your heart shall meditate the terror. Where is the scribe? where is the one who weighs? where is he that counts the towers?
19. You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a more obscure speech than you can perceive; of a stammering tongue, that you can not understand.