Isaiah 33 : 1 (ESV)
Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
Isaiah 33 : 2 (ESV)
O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
Isaiah 33 : 3 (ESV)
At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
Isaiah 33 : 4 (ESV)
and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.
Isaiah 33 : 5 (ESV)
The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isaiah 33 : 6 (ESV)
and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.
Isaiah 33 : 7 (ESV)
Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
Isaiah 33 : 8 (ESV)
The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.
Isaiah 33 : 9 (ESV)
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
Isaiah 33 : 10 (ESV)
"Now I will arise," says the LORD, "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.
Isaiah 33 : 11 (ESV)
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
Isaiah 33 : 12 (ESV)
And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."
Isaiah 33 : 13 (ESV)
Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
Isaiah 33 : 14 (ESV)
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"
Isaiah 33 : 15 (ESV)
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
Isaiah 33 : 16 (ESV)
he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.
Isaiah 33 : 17 (ESV)
Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
Isaiah 33 : 18 (ESV)
Your heart will muse on the terror: "Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?"
Isaiah 33 : 19 (ESV)
You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.
Isaiah 33 : 20 (ESV)
Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
Isaiah 33 : 21 (ESV)
But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.
Isaiah 33 : 22 (ESV)
For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Isaiah 33 : 23 (ESV)
Your cords hang loose; they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey.
Isaiah 33 : 24 (ESV)
And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.
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