Isaiah 33
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A Prayer in Deep Distress
1Woe to you #Is. 21:2; Hab. 2:8who plunder, though you have not been plundered;
And you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you!
#Rev. 13:10When you cease plundering,
You will be #Is. 10:12; 14:25; 31:8plundered;
When you make an end of dealing treacherously,
They will deal treacherously with you.
2O Lord, be gracious to us;
#Is. 25:9; 26:8We have waited for You.
Be their arm every morning,
Our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3At the noise of the tumult the people #Is. 17:13shall flee;
When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;
4And Your plunder shall be gathered
Like the gathering of the caterpillar;
As the running to and fro of locusts,
He shall run upon them.
5#Ps. 97:9The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high;
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times,
And the strength of salvation;
The fear of the Lord is His treasure.
7Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside,
#2 Kin. 18:18, 37The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8#Judg. 5:6The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
#2 Kin. 18:13–17He has broken the covenant,
He has despised the cities,
He regards no man.
9#Is. 24:4The earth mourns and languishes,
Lebanon is shamed and shriveled;
Sharon is like a wilderness,
And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Impending Judgment on Zion
10“Now#Ps. 12:5; Is. 2:19, 21 I will rise,” says the Lord;
“Now I will be exalted,
Now I will lift Myself up.
11#(Ps. 7:14; Is. 26:18; 59:4; James 1:15)You shall conceive chaff,
You shall bring forth stubble;
Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
#Is. 9:18Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
13Hear, #Ps. 48:10; Is. 49:1you who are afar off, what I have done;
And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
14The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring #Is. 30:27, 30; Heb. 12:29fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15He who #Ps. 15:2; 24:3, 4; Is. 58:6–11walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And #Ps. 119:37shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
16He will dwell on high;
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks;
Bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.
The Land of the Majestic King
17Your eyes will see the King in His #Ps. 27:4beauty;
They will see the land that is very far off.
18Your heart will meditate on terror:
#1 Cor. 1:20“Where is the scribe?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”
19#2 Kin. 19:32You will not see a fierce people,
#Deut. 28:49, 50; Is. 28:11; Jer. 5:15A people of obscure speech, beyond perception,
Of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand.
20#Ps. 48:12Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see #Ps. 46:5; 125:1; Is. 32:18Jerusalem, a quiet home,
A tabernacle that will not be taken down;
#Is. 37:33Not one of #Is. 54:2its stakes will ever be removed,
Nor will any of its cords be broken.
21But there the majestic Lord will be for us
A place of broad rivers and streams,
In which no galley with oars will sail,
Nor majestic ships pass by
22(For the Lord is our #(Acts 10:42)Judge,
The Lord is our #Is. 1:10; 51:4, 7; James 4:12Lawgiver,
#Ps. 89:18; Is. 25:9; 35:4; Zech. 9:9The Lord is our King;
He will save us);
23Your tackle is loosed,
They could not strengthen their mast,
They could not spread the sail.
Then the prey of great plunder is divided;
The lame take the prey.
24And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;
#Is. 40:2; Jer. 50:20; Mic. 7:18, 19; 1 John 1:7–9The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.
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Isaiah 33
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Yahweh’s Judgment and Help
1Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed!
And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him!#Many manuscripts suggest “you” rather than “him”
When you cease#Literally “finishing” destroying, you will be destroyed.
When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.
2Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you.
Be our#Hebrew “their” arm in the mornings,
indeed our salvation in the time of trouble.
3At the sound of tumult, peoples fled;
because of your exaltation, nations scattered.
4And your spoil is gathered,
as the gathering of the locust,
as a swarm of locusts storming on it.
5Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high;
he filled Zion with justice and righteousness,
6and he will be the security of your times,
an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of Yahweh is his treasure.
7Look! Their heroes cry out in the street;
the messengers of peace weep bitterly.
8Highways are deserted;
the traveler on the road ceases.
One breaks a treaty,
he rejects the cities,#A Dead Sea Scroll reads “witnesses”
he does not hold man in high regard.
9The land mourns; it languishes.
Lebanon feels abashed; it withers.
Sharon is like the desert,
and Bashan and Carmel are losing their leaves.#Literally “shaking off”
10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.
“Now I will lift myself up proudly;
now I will raise myself.
11You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble;
your breath is a fire; it will consume you.
12And the peoples will be burning to lime—
they are burned like thorns that have been cut down in the fire.
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#Literally “dwell as an alien” with devouring fire?
Who of us can live#Literally “dwell as an alien” with everlasting consuming hearths?”
15He who walks in righteousness
and speaks uprightness,
who rejects the gain of extortion,
who refuses#Literally “shakes his hand from the taking of” a bribe,
who stops up his ears#Hebrew “ear” from hearing bloodshed#Literally “blood”
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#Hebrew “water” will endure.
17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;
they will see a distant land.#Literally “land of distance”
18Your mind#Literally “heart” 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,#Literally “obscure of lip than to hear”
whose stammering of tongue cannot be understood.#Literally “there is no understanding”
20Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals!
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
an undisturbed settlement,
a tent that is not moved.#Literally “not he is loaded”
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,#Literally “streams broad of hands”
a galley ship with#Or “of” oars#Hebrew “oar” 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.
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