Isaiah 33:13–24

¹³Listen to what I have done, you nations far away!

And you that are near, acknowledge my might!”

¹⁴The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear.

Terror seizes the godless.

“Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry.

“Who can survive this all-consuming fire?”

¹⁵Those who are honest and fair,

who refuse to profit by fraud,

who stay far away from bribes,

who refuse to listen to those who plot murder,

who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong—

¹⁶these are the ones who will dwell on high.

The rocks of the mountains will be their fortress.

Food will be supplied to them,

and they will have water in abundance.

¹⁷Your eyes will see the king in all his splendor,

and you will see a land that stretches into the distance.

¹⁸You will think back to this time of terror, asking,

“Where are the Assyrian officers

who counted our towers?

Where are the bookkeepers

who recorded the plunder taken from our fallen city?”

¹⁹You will no longer see these fierce, violent people

with their strange, unknown language.

²⁰Instead, you will see Zion as a place of holy festivals.

You will see Jerusalem, a city quiet and secure.

It will be like a tent whose ropes are taut

and whose stakes are firmly fixed.

²¹The Lord will be our Mighty One.

He will be like a wide river of protection

that no enemy can cross,

that no enemy ship can sail upon.

²²For the Lord is our judge,

our lawgiver, and our king.

He will care for us and save us.

²³The enemies’ sails hang loose

on broken masts with useless tackle.

Their treasure will be divided by the people of God.

Even the lame will take their share!

²⁴The people of Israel will no longer say,

“We are sick and helpless,”

for the Lord will forgive their sins.