9. The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10. “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
11. You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
12. The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.