⁹ The land itself is dry and useless.
    Lebanon's forest is dying.
    Sharon has become like a desert.
    The trees in Bashan and Carmel have no leaves.^[a]
10 The Lord says, ‘Now I will stand up to do something.
    I will show that I am great and powerful.
¹¹ My enemies, everything that you want to do will be useless.
    Your thoughts are like dry grass and straw.
Your own breath will destroy you,
    like a fire that burns dry grass.