10 “Now I will rise up,”t says the Lord.

“Now I will lift myself up.

Now I will be exalted.

11 You will conceive chaff;u

you will give birth to stubble.

Your breath is fire that will consume you.

12 The peoples will be burned to ashes,

like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.

13 You who are far off, hear what I have done;

you who are near,v know my strength.”

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;

trembling seizes the ungodly:

“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?w

Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”*

15 The one who lives righteously

and speaks rightly,x

who refuses profit from extortion,

whose hand never takes a bribe,

who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots

and shuts his eyes against evil schemesa—