^{7 Ref} See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.

^{8 Ref} The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.

^{9 Ref} 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.