Isaías 33

¹ Woe to thee that dost spoil, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and dost deal treacherously, and they did not deal treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

² O LORD, have mercy on us; we wait for thee: [thou] wert the strength of thy people in the beginning, be also our saving health in the time of tribulation.

³ At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting up of thyself the Gentiles were scattered.

⁴ And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

⁵ The LORD shall be exalted; he who dwells on the heights: [for] he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

⁶ And in thy times wisdom and knowledge, and the strength of salvation shall reign: the fear of the LORD [shall be] his treasure.

⁷ Behold, their ambassadors shall cry without: the messengers of peace shall weep bitterly.

⁸ The highways shall be broken down; the travellers shall cease; he has broken the covenant; he has despised the cities; he does not regard man.

⁹ The earth mourns [and] languishes: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel were shaken.

¹⁰ Now I will rise up, saith the LORD; now I will be exalted; now I will be lifted up.

¹¹ Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.

¹² And the peoples shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.

¹³ Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and, ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might.

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with eternal flames?

¹⁵ He that walks in righteousness, he that speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of violence, he that shakes his hands from receiving bribes; he that stops his ears to not hear of blood; he who shuts his eyes to not see evil;

¹⁶ he shall dwell upon the high places: fortresses of rocks shall be his place of refuge: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.

¹⁷ Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

¹⁸ Thine heart shall imagine the terror. Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the receiver [of tribute]? Where [is] he that counted the towers?

¹⁹ Thou shalt not see that fierce people, a people of a darker speech than thou can perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou can] not understand.

²⁰ Thou shalt see Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.

²¹ For the LORD shall surely be strong unto us there, a place of broad rivers [and] wide streams in which no galley with oars shall go, neither shall [any] great ship pass thereby.

²² For the LORD [shall be] our judge, the LORD [shall be] our lawgiver, the LORD shall be our king; he himself will save us.

²³ Thy tacklings are loosed; they did not strengthen well their mast, nor could they spread the sail: then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; [even] the lame shall take prey.

²⁴ And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] absolved from sin.: