Isaiah 33:13–24

¹³You who are far away, hear what I have done;

and you who are near, know my might!”

¹⁴Sinners are afraid in Zion;

trembling has seized the godless:

“Who of us can live^f with devouring fire?

Who of us can live^g with everlasting consuming hearths?”

¹⁵He who walks in righteousness

and speaks uprightness,

who rejects the gain of extortion,

who refuses^h a bribe,

who stops up his earsⁱ from hearing bloodshed^j

and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.

¹⁶That one will live on the heights;

the fortresses of rocks will be his refuge.

His food will be given;

his waters^k will endure.

¹⁷Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;

they will see a distant land.^l

¹⁸Your mind^m will meditate on the terror:

“Where is the one who counted?

Where is the one who weighed out?

Where is the one who counted the towers?”

¹⁹You will not see the insolent people,

the people whose language is too obscure to understand,ⁿ

whose stammering of tongue cannot be understood.^o

²⁰Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals!

Your eyes will see Jerusalem,

an undisturbed settlement,

a tent that is not moved.^p

No one will ever pull out its tent pegs,

and none of its ropes will be torn in two.

²¹Rather, there Yahweh will be mighty for us,

a place of rivers and broad streams,^q

a galley ship with^r oars^s cannot go in it,

and a mighty ship cannot pass through it.

²²For Yahweh is our judge; Yahweh is our lawgiver.

Yahweh is our king; he is the one who will save us.

²³Your riggings hang slack;

they do not hold the base of their mast firm,

they do not spread out the sail.

Then the prey of spoil in abundance will be divided;

the lame will take plunder.

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

the people who live in it, their iniquity will be taken away.