The land mourns and languishes.
Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 33:9 in context
Isaiah 33:6–12
6
There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the LORD is your treasure.
7
Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
8
The highways are desolate.
The traveling man ceases.
The covenant is broken.
He has despised the cities.
He doesn’t respect man.
9
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The land mourns and languishes.
Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10
“Now I will arise,” says the LORD.
“Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
11
You will conceive chaff.
You will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
12
The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
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