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See, the men of Ariel cry out in the streets,
    the messengers of Shalem[a] weep bitterly.
The highways are desolate,
    travelers have quit the paths,
Covenants are broken, witnesses spurned;
    yet no one gives it a thought.(A)
The country languishes in mourning,
    Lebanon withers with shame;
Sharon[b] is like the Arabah,
    Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 33:7 Ariel…Shalem: Jerusalem; cf. 29:1; Gn 14:18; Ps 76:3. There is a play on words between “Shalem,” the city name, and shalom, Heb. for “peace.”
  2. 33:9 Sharon: the fertile plain near the Mediterranean.