Isaiah Chapter 33 Back Next{33:1} Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.
{33:2} Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
{33:3} At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
{33:4} Your spoil will be gathered as the
caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as
locusts leap.
{33:5} Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
{33:6} There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
{33:7} Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the
ambassadors of peace weep
bitterly.
{33:8} The
highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The
covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man.
{33:9} The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a
desert, and
Bashan and
Carmel are stripped bare.
{33:10} "Now I will arise," says Yahweh; "Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
{33:11} You will conceive
chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a
fire that will devour you.
{33:12} The peoples will be like the burning of
lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
{33:13} Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might."
{33:14} The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
{33:15} He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of
blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
{33:16} he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His
bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
{33:17} Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
{33:18} Your
heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
{33:19} You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.
{33:20} Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see
Jerusalem, a quiet
habitation, a tent that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
{33:21} But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
{33:22} For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
{33:23} Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.
{33:24} The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick." The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
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