Isaiah 33

Yahweh’s Judgment and Help

¹Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed!

When you cease destroying, you will be destroyed.

²Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you.

³At the sound of tumult, peoples fled;

⁴And your spoil is gathered,

⁵Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high;

⁶and he will be the security of your times,

The fear of Yahweh is his treasure.

⁷Look! Their heroes cry out in the street;

⁸Highways are deserted;

One breaks a treaty,

⁹The land mourns; it languishes.

Sharon is like the desert,

¹⁰“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.

¹¹You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble;

¹²And the peoples will be burning to lime—

¹³You who are far away, hear what I have done;

¹⁴Sinners are afraid in Zion;

“Who of us can live with devouring fire?

¹⁵He who walks in righteousness

who rejects the gain of extortion,

who stops up his ears from hearing bloodshed

¹⁶That one will live on the heights;

His food will be given;

¹⁷Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;

¹⁸Your mind will meditate on the terror:[#Literally “heart”]

Where is the one who weighed out?

¹⁹You will not see the insolent people,

²⁰Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals!

an undisturbed settlement,

No one will ever pull out its tent pegs,

²¹Rather, there Yahweh will be mighty for us,

a galley ship with oars cannot go in it,

²²For Yahweh is our judge; Yahweh is our lawgiver.

²³Your riggings hang slack;

Then the prey of spoil in abundance will be divided;

²⁴And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”;