Isaiah 33

CHAPTER 33

The King in His Beauty

¹Woe ^ato you, O destroyer,

While you were not destroyed;

And he ^bwho is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him.

As soon as you finish destroying, ^cyou will be destroyed;

As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will ^ddeal treacherously with you.

²O Yahweh, ^abe gracious to us; we have ^bhoped in You.

Be ¹their ^2cstrength every morning,

Our salvation also in the ^dtime of distress.

³At the sound of the tumult ^apeoples flee;

At the ^blifting up of Yourself nations scatter.

⁴Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;

As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

⁵Yahweh is ^aexalted, for He dwells on high;

He has ^bfilled Zion with justice and righteousness.

⁶And He will be the ^1astability of your times,

A ^bwealth of salvation, wisdom, and ^cknowledge;

The ^dfear of Yahweh is his treasure.

⁷Behold, their brave men cry in ¹the streets;

The ^amessengers of peace weep bitterly.

⁸The highways are desolate, ¹the ^atraveler has ceased;

He has ^bbroken the covenant, he has rejected the cities;

He has no regard for man.

^9aThe land mourns and languishes,

^bLebanon is humiliated and withers;

^cSharon is like a desert plain,

And Bashan and Carmel ¹lose their foliage.

¹⁰“Now ^aI will be on high,” says Yahweh,

“Now I will be lifted up, now I will be lifted up.

¹¹“You have ^aconceived ¹chaff, you will give birth to stubble;

²My ^bbreath will consume you like a fire.

¹²“The peoples will be burned to lime,

^aLike cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

¹³“You who are far away, ^ahear what I have done;

And you who are near, ¹acknowledge My might.”

^14aSinners in Zion are in dread;

^bTrembling has seized the godless.

“Who among us can sojourn with ^cthe consuming fire?

Who among us can sojourn with ¹continual ^dburning?”

¹⁵He who ^awalks righteously and speaks uprightly;

He who rejects greedy gain of ¹oppression,

And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;

He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed

And ^bshuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

¹⁶He will dwell on the heights,

^aHis refuge will be the strongholds of the cliffs;

^bHis bread will be given him,

His water will be sure.

¹⁷Your eyes will behold ^athe King in His beauty;

They will see ^ba far-distant land.

¹⁸Your heart will meditate on ^aterror:

“Where is ^bhe who counts?

Where is he who weighs?

Where is he who counts the towers?”

¹⁹You will no longer see a fierce people,

A people of ^1aunintelligible speech ²which no one comprehends,

Of a stammering tongue ³which no one understands.

^20aBehold Zion, the city of our appointed times;

Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an ^babode at ease,

^cA tent which will not be folded;

Its stakes will never be pulled up,

Nor any of its cords ever be torn apart.

²¹But there the Mighty One, Yahweh, will be for us

A place of ^arivers and wide canals

On which no boat with oars will go,

And on which no mighty ship will pass—

²²For Yahweh is our ^ajudge,

Yahweh is ^bour lawgiver,

Yahweh is ^cour king;

^dHe will save us—

²³Your cords hang slack;

They cannot hold the base of their mast firmly,

Nor spread out the sail.

Then the ^aprey of an abundant spoil will be divided;

^bThe lame will take the plunder.

²⁴And no one who dwells there will say, “I am ^asick”;

The people who inhabit ¹there will be ^bforgiven their iniquity.