Isaiah 33

Revised Geneva Translation

33 Woe to you who plunder, yet were not plundered, and does wickedly, yet they did not do wickedly against you. When you shall cease to plunder, you shall be plundered. When you shall stop doing wickedly, they shall do wickedly against you.

² O LORD, have mercy upon us. We have waited for You. Be their Arm in the morning, our help also in time of trouble!

³ At the noise of the tumult, the people fled. At Your exalting, the nations were scattered.

⁴ And Your plunder shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillars. And He shall go against him like the leaping of grasshoppers.

⁵ The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.

⁶ And there shall be stability of the times, strength, salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD shall be His treasure.

⁷ Behold, their messengers shall cry outside. And the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

⁸ The paths are desolate. The wayfaring man ceases. He has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He regards no man.

⁹ The Earth mourns and faints. Lebanon is ashamed and withered. Sharon is like a wilderness. And Bashan is shaken, and Carmel.

¹⁰ “Now I will arise,” says the LORD, “Now I will be exalted. Now I will lift Myself up.

¹¹ “You shall conceive chaff and bring forth stubble. The fire of your breath shall devour you.

¹² “And the people shall be as the burning of lime. And they shall be burnt in the fire, as the cut thorns.

¹³ “Hear, you who are far off, what I have done! And you who are near, know My power!”

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid. A fear has come upon the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with the everlasting burnings?

¹⁵ He who walks in justice, and speaks righteous things —refusing gain of oppression, shaking his hands from the taking of gifts, stopping his ears from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing evil —

¹⁶ he shall dwell on high. His defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Bread shall be given to him. His waters shall be sure.

¹⁷ Your eyes shall see the King in His Glory. They shall behold the land from far away.

¹⁸ Your heart shall contemplate fear: “Where is the scribe?” “Where is the receiver?” “Where is he who counted the towers?”

¹⁹ You shall not see a fierce people, a people of dark speech that you cannot perceive, of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand.

²⁰ Look upon Zion, the city of our solemn Feasts. Your eyes shall see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed. And its stakes can never be taken away. Nor shall any of its cords be broken.

²¹ For surely there the mighty LORD will be to us as a place of streams and broad rivers, whereby no ship with oars shall pass. Nor shall a great ship pass thereby.

²² For the LORD is our Judge. The LORD is our Lawgiver. The LORD is our King. He will save us.

²³ Your cords are loosened. They could not strengthen their mast well. Nor could they spread the sail. Then the prey shall be divided for a great plunder. The lame shall take away the prey.

²⁴ And no inhabitant shall say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein shall have their iniquity forgiven.