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Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. The enemy has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities and [a]the witnesses, he regards no man.

The land mourns and languishes, Lebanon is confounded and [its luxuriant verdure] withers away; Sharon [a fertile pasture region south of Mount Carmel] is like a desert, and Bashan [a broad, fertile plateau east of the Jordan River] and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:8 The Dead Sea Scrolls read “the witnesses.”

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