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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/32.htm" title="Isaiah 32">◄</a> Isaiah 33 <a href="../isaiah/34.htm" title="Isaiah 34">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">A Prophecy of Deliverance from Foes</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Ah, you destroyer,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who yourself have not been destroyed;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you treacherous one,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with whom no one has dealt treacherously!</span></span><br /><span class="text">When you have ceased to destroy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you will be destroyed;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and when you have stopped dealing treacherously,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you will be dealt with treacherously.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, be gracious to us; we wait for you.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Be our arm every morning,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">our salvation in the time of trouble.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>At the sound of tumult, peoples fled;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">before your majesty, nations scattered.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as locusts leap, they leaped<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22170a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> upon it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is exalted, he dwells on high;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he filled Zion with justice and righteousness;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>he will be the stability of your times,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the fear of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is Zion’s treasure.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22172b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Listen! the valiant<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22173c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> cry in the streets;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the envoys of peace weep bitterly.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The highways are deserted,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">travelers have quit the road.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The treaty is broken,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">its oaths<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22174d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> are despised,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">its obligation<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22174e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> is disregarded.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The land mourns and languishes;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Lebanon is confounded and withers away;</span></span><br /><span class="text">Sharon is like a desert;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>“Now I will arise,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“now I will lift myself up;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">now I will be exalted.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your breath is a fire that will consume you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Hear, you who are far away, what I have done;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you who are near, acknowledge my might.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The sinners in Zion are afraid;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">trembling has seized the godless:</span></span><br /><span class="text">“Who among us can live with the devouring fire?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Who among us can live with everlasting flames?”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who despise the gain of oppression,</span></span><br /><span class="text">who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and shut their eyes from looking on evil,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>they will live on the heights;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their refuge will be the fortresses of rocks;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their food will be supplied, their water assured.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Land of the Majestic King</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they will behold a land that stretches far away.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Your mind will muse on the terror:</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“Where is the one who counted?</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Where is the one who weighed the tribute?</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Where is the one who counted the towers?”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>No longer will you see the insolent people,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">stammering in a language that you cannot understand.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Your eyes will see Jerusalem,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a quiet habitation, an immovable tent,</span></span><br /><span class="text">whose stakes will never be pulled up,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and none of whose ropes will be broken.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>But there the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> in majesty will be for us</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a place of broad rivers and streams,</span></span><br /><span class="text">where no galley with oars can go,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor stately ship can pass.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is our judge, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is our ruler,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is our king; he will save us.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Your rigging hangs loose;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it cannot hold the mast firm in its place,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or keep the sail spread out.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">even the lame will fall to plundering.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the people who live there will be forgiven their iniquity.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 33:4">Isaiah 33:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 33:6">Isaiah 33:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>his treasure</i>; meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 33:7">Isaiah 33:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 33:8">Isaiah 33:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms: MT <i>cities</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 33:8">Isaiah 33:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>everyone</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised 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