⁸ The highways are deserted,
    no travelers^(A) are on the roads.^(B)
The treaty is broken,^(C)
    its witnesses^[a] are despised,
    no one is respected.
⁹ The land dries up^(D) and wastes away,
    Lebanon^(E) is ashamed and withers;^(F)
Sharon^(G) is like the Arabah,
    and Bashan^(H) and Carmel^(I) drop their leaves.

¹⁰ “Now will I arise,^(J)” says the Lord.
    “Now will I be exalted;^(K)
    now will I be lifted up.