Isaiah 33:1-21 ▼

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.

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.

3 From the voice of roaring the peoples will flee, from Your rising up the nations will be scattered.

4 Your? plunder will be gathered as gathers the locust; as the rushing of locusts shall he run upon it.

5 YHWH is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with 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.

7 Behold, “Their Ariel” they have cried outside; the messengers of peace do 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.

9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decays; Sharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel shake off.

10 “Now I will arise,” says YHWH; “Now I will be exalted, now I will lift Myself up!

11 You? conceive chaff, you? give birth to stubble. Your? breath like a fire will devour you?.

12 And the people will be like the burnings of lime, cut thorns, they will be burned in the fire.

13 Hear, far away ones, what I have done, and acknowledge, near ones, My might.”

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?

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;

16 He will dwell on the heights; strongholds in the cliffs are his refuge; his bread will be given, his water will be sure.

17 Your eyes will gaze at the King in His beauty; they will see a land faraway.

18 Your heart will ponder the terror: “Where is the one counting? Where is the one weighing? Where is the one counting 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.

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.

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.