Isaiah 33

Isaiah

33 ¹Woe, O destroyer, but you have not been destroyed,
and traitor, with whom none has betrayed.

When you stop destroying,
you will be destroyed;

when you make an end of betraying,
you will be betrayed.

God’s covenant people

²O  Lord, be gracious to us;
we have waited[1] for You.

Be their arm every morning,
[their][2] salvation in time of trouble.

³At the tumultous noise, peoples flee,
when You arise, nations scatter.

Isaiah

⁴And your spoil {O nations} is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
one leaps upon it as the locusts leap.

God’s covenant people

⁵The LORD is exalted,
for He dwells on high;

He fills Zion with justice and righteousness.
⁶And He will be faithfulness in your times,

a treasure of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the LORD, that is his treasure.

Isaiah

⁷Behold the heroes cry outside;
the messengers of peace weep bitterly.

⁸Highways lie desolate,
the traveler ceases,

covenants are broken,
witnesses[3] are despised, there is respect for no one.

⁹The land mourns, grows weak;
Lebanon is ashamed, withers away.

Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

The Lord

¹⁰“Now, I will arise,”

Isaiah

says the LORD.

The Lord

“Now I will be exalted,
now I will lift Myself.

¹¹You conceive chaff,
you give birth to stubble;

your breath, as a fire, will consume you.
¹²And peoples will be burnings of lime;
like thorns cut down, they will be burned in the fire.

¹³Hear what I have done, you who are far off,
and know My might, you who are near.”

¹⁴The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the godless.”

Isaiah

¹⁴Who among us will dwell with devouring fire?
Who among us will dwell with everlasting burnings?

¹⁵He who walks righteously
and speaks what is right,

he who rejects gain by extortion,
who shakes his hands from holding a bribe,

who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.

¹⁶He will dwell on the heights;
his place of defense will be fortresses of rocks.

His bread will be given;
his water will be sure.

¹⁷Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;
they will see a land that is far off.

Isaiah

¹⁸Your heart will meditate on the terror:

Unnamed individual

“Where is the one who counts {the taxes}?
Where is he who weighs {the tribute}?
Where is he who counts the towers?”

Isaiah

¹⁹You will not see a fierce people,
people of unintelligible speech,

which you cannot comprehend,
a strange tongue, which you cannot understand.

²⁰Behold Zion,
the town of our appointed festivals;

your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful habitation,
a tent not moved,

its stakes not pulled up forever,
and its cords never broken.

²¹For there the LORD in majesty will be for us,
a place of rivers, wide streams;

no oared ship will travel it,
nor mighty ship will pass on it.

²²For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,

the LORD is our king;
He will save us.

²³Your ropes have come loose; they cannot hold the base of their mast,
nor keep the sail spread out.

Then the abundant spoil was divided;
the lame have taken the plunder.

²⁴And no resident will say,

Unnamed individual

“I am sick.”

Isaiah

The people who dwell there are forgiven of iniquity.