Isaiah 33 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Woe, O destroyer, even you never destroyed, and you treacherous one, and they have never betrayed him! At the completion of your destroying, you will be destroyed; as you finish being treacherous, they will deal treacherously with you. Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you. Woe to you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed! Woe to you, betrayer, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.
2 O YHWH, show favor to us; we wait for You! Be their arm in the mornings, also our salvation in the time of distress. O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.
3 From the voice of roaring the peoples will flee, from Your rising up the nations will be scattered. At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered, At the uproar of your army, the peoples flee; when you rise up, the nations scatter.
4 Your⁺ plunder will be gathered as gathers the locust; as the rushing of locusts shall he run upon it. and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon. Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.
5 YHWH is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with his justice and righteousness.
6 He will be the steadfastness of your times, and a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge—the fear of YHWH is his treasure. and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure. He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure.
7 Behold, “Their Ariel” they have cried outside; the messengers of peace do weep bitterly. Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
8 For the highways are desolate, the road has ceased from those traveling. He has broken the covenant; he has despised the witnesses; he has not regarded man. The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man. The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken, its witnesses are despised, no one is respected.
9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decays; Sharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel shake off. The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. The land dries up and wastes away, Lebanon is ashamed and withers; Sharon is like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.
10 “Now I will arise,” says YHWH; “Now I will be exalted, now I will lift Myself up! “Now I will arise,” says the LORD, “now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted. “Now will I arise,” says the LORD. “Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up.
11 You⁺ conceive chaff, you⁺ give birth to stubble. Your⁺ breath like a fire will devour you⁺. You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.
12 And the people will be like the burnings of lime, cut thorns, they will be burned in the fire. And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.” The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”
13 Hear, far away ones, what I have done, and acknowledge, near ones, My might.” Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might. You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power!
14 The sinful ones in Zion are afraid, trembling has seized the godless: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with burnings” forever? The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?” The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
15 The one walking righteously and speaking uprightly; the one rejecting the gain of oppression, shaking his hands away from grasping at a bribe; the one shutting his ears from hearing of bloodshed and closing his eyes from looking at evil; He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, Those who walk righteously and speak what is right, who reject gain from extortion and keep their hands from accepting bribes, who stop their ears against plots of murder and shut their eyes against contemplating evil—
16 He will dwell on the heights; strongholds in the cliffs are his refuge; his bread will be given, his water will be sure. he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. they are the ones who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. Their bread will be supplied, and water will not fail them.
17 Your eyes will gaze at the King in His beauty; they will see a land faraway. Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar. Your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that stretches afar.
18 Your heart will ponder the terror: “Where is the one counting? Where is the one weighing? Where is the one counting the towers?” Your heart will muse on the terror: “Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?” In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: “Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the revenue? Where is the officer in charge of the towers?”
19 A fierce people you will not see, a people in the depths of speech, beyond hearing, a stammering of the tongue without understanding. You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand. You will see those arrogant people no more, people whose speech is obscure, whose language is strange and incomprehensible.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; let your eyes look on Jerusalem—a quiet abode, a tent that does not wander; will not be pulled out one of its pegs forever, and all of its cords cannot be broken. Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken. Look on Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.
21 But there YHWH is majestic for us, a place of rivers and streams broad of hands, where no fleet with oar shall go on it, and a majestic ship will not pass over it. But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass. There the LORD will be our Mighty One. It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams. No galley with oars will ride them, no mighty ship will sail them.
22 For YHWH is the One judging us; YHWH is the One decreeing for us; YHWH is our King; He will save us. For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us. For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.
23 Your ropes are slack—they cannot hold the firmness of their mast; they cannot spread out the sail. Then the prey will be divided, plunder in great abundance—even the lame will seize the spoils! Your cords hang loose; they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey. Your rigging hangs loose: The mast is not held secure, the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder.
24 And the dweller will not say “I am sick;” for the people dwelling in it will be lifted of iniquity. And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity. No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill|; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
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