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Isaiah 33
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1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed;
- and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!
- When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;
- and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.
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2Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
- Be our strength every morning,
- our salvation also in the time of trouble.
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3At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
- When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
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4Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.
- Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
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5Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.
- He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
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6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
- The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
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7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
- the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
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8The highways are desolate.
- The traveling man ceases.
- The covenant is broken.
- He has despised the cities.
- He doesn’t respect man.
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9The land mourns and languishes.
- Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
- Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
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10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh;
- “Now I will lift myself up.
- Now I will be exalted.
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11You will conceive chaff.
- You will bring forth stubble.
- Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
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12The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
- like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
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13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
- and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
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14The sinners in Zion are afraid.
- Trembling has seized the godless ones.
- Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
- Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
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15He who walks righteously,
- and speaks blamelessly;
- He who despises the gain of oppressions,
- who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,
- who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
- and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
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16he will dwell on high.
- His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.
- His bread will be supplied.
- His waters will be sure.
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17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
- They will see a distant land.
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18Your heart will meditate on the terror.
- Where is he who counted?
- Where is he who weighed?
- Where is he who counted the towers?
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19You will no longer see the fierce people,
- a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend,
- with a strange language that you can’t understand.
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20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.
- Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,
- a tent that won’t be removed.
- Its stakes will never be plucked up,
- nor will any of its cords be broken.
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21But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
- a place of broad rivers and streams,
- in which no galley with oars will go,
- neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
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22For Yahweh is our judge.
- Yahweh is our lawgiver.
- Yahweh is our king.
- He will save us.
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23Your rigging is untied.
- They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast.
- They couldn’t spread the sail.
- Then the prey of a great spoil was divided.
- The lame took the prey.
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24The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”
- The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
