Isaiah 33:13–24

¹³Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;

and you who are near, acknowledge my might.

¹⁴The sinners in Zion are afraid;

trembling has seized the godless:

^y“Who among us can dwell ^zwith the consuming fire?

Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

^15aHe 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

^band shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

¹⁶he will dwell on the heights;

his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;

^chis bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

^17dYour eyes will behold the king in his beauty;

^ethey will see a land that stretches afar.

^18fYour heart will muse on the terror:

“Where is he who counted, where is ^ghe who weighed the tribute?

Where is ^hhe who counted the towers?”

¹⁹ⁱYou will see no more the insolent people,

the people ^jof an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,

stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.

²⁰Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts!

^kYour eyes will see Jerusalem,

an untroubled habitation, an ^limmovable tent,

whose stakes will never be plucked up,

nor will any of its cords be broken.

²¹But there the Lord in majesty will be for us

a place of ^mbroad rivers and streams,

ⁿwhere no galley with oars can go,

nor majestic ship can pass.

²²For the Lord is our ^ojudge; the Lord is our ^plawgiver;

the Lord is our ^qking; he will save us.

²³Your cords hang loose;

they cannot hold the mast firm in its place

or keep the sail spread out.

^rThen prey and spoil in abundance will be divided;

even ^sthe lame will take the prey.

²⁴And no inhabitant will say, ^t“I am sick”;

^uthe people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.