^8 (A)The highways lie waste;
    the traveler ceases.
^(B)Covenants are broken;
    cities^[a] are despised;
    there is no regard for man.

^9 (A)The land mourns and languishes;
    Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
    and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.