⁷ Look! Their heroes cry out in the street;
    the messengers of peace weep bitterly.
⁸ Highways are deserted;
    the traveler on the road ceases.
One breaks a treaty,
    he rejects the cities,^[a]
    he does not hold man in high regard.
⁹ The land mourns; it languishes.
    Lebanon feels abashed; it withers.
Sharon is like the desert,
    and Bashan and Carmel are losing their leaves.^[b]