5. Adonai is exalted, for He dwells on high! He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6. It will be your time of faithfulness, a wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge— the fear of Adonai is His treasure.
7. Behold, heroes cry outside. Ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
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?”
15. One who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly, who refuses unjust gain by extortion, who shakes his hands free of bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil.
16. He will dwell on the heights— his refuge will be an impregnable cliff. His bread will be provided, his water assured.