9
The 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.
10
Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
11
Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
12
And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
13
Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near.
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