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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[a] is like the Arabah,
    Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.(B)

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  1. 33:9 Sharon: the fertile plain near the Mediterranean.

The highways are deserted,
    no travelers(A) are on the roads.(B)
The treaty is broken,(C)
    its witnesses[a] are despised,
    no one is respected.
The land dries up(D) and wastes away,
    Lebanon(E) is ashamed and withers;(F)
Sharon(G) is like the Arabah,
    and Bashan(H) and Carmel(I) drop their leaves.

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  1. Isaiah 33:8 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text / the cities

Judah mourns,
    her gates are lifeless;
They are bowed to the ground,
    and the outcry of Jerusalem goes up.(A)

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“Judah mourns,(A)
    her cities languish;
they wail for the land,
    and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

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