8 ^aThe highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
^bHe has broken the covenant,
¹He has despised the² cities,
He regards no man. ‡

9 ^aThe earth mourns and languishes,
Lebanon is shamed and shriveled;
Sharon is like a wilderness,
And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. ‡

11 ^aYou shall conceive chaff,
You shall bring forth stubble;
Your breath, as fire, shall devour you. ‡

12 And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
^aLike thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire. ‡