^{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.

^{10 Ref} Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.

^{11 Ref} Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

^{12 Ref} And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.