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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 33 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/33.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/33-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Isaiah 33</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/33.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, Be Gracious to Us</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Ah, you destroyer,</span><br /><span class="indent">who yourself have not been destroyed,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you traitor,</span><br /><span class="indent">whom none has betrayed!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">When you have ceased to destroy,</span><br /><span class="indent">you will be destroyed;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and when you have finished betraying,</span><br /><span class="indent">they will betray you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, be gracious to us; we wait for you.</span><br /><span class="indent">Be our arm every morning,</span><br /><span class="indent">our salvation in the time of trouble.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">At the tumultuous noise peoples flee;</span><br /><span class="indent">when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;</span><br /><span class="indent">as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is exalted, for he dwells on high;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and he will be the stability of your times,</span><br /><span class="indent">abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;</span><br /><span class="indent">the fear of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is Zion’s<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew his">a</a></sup></span> treasure.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, their heroes cry in the streets;</span><br /><span class="indent">the envoys of peace weep bitterly.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The highways lie waste;</span><br /><span class="indent">the traveler ceases.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Covenants are broken;</span><br /><span class="indent">cities<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll witnesses">b</a></sup></span> are despised;</span><br /><span class="indent">there is no regard for man.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The land mourns and languishes;</span><br /><span class="indent">Lebanon is confounded and withers away;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Sharon is like a desert,</span><br /><span class="indent">and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Now I will arise,” says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">“now I will lift myself up;</span><br /><span class="indent">now I will be exalted.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;</span><br /><span class="indent">your breath is a fire that will consume you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,</span><br /><span class="indent">like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;</span><br /><span class="indent">and you who are near, acknowledge my might.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The sinners in Zion are afraid;</span><br /><span class="indent">trembling has seized the godless:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire?</span><br /><span class="indent">Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,</span><br /><span class="indent">who despises the gain of oppressions,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,</span><br /><span class="indent">who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed</span><br /><span class="indent">and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he will dwell on the heights;</span><br /><span class="indent">his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;</span><br /><span class="indent">his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty;</span><br /><span class="indent">they will see a land that stretches afar.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your heart will muse on the terror:</span><br /><span class="indent">“Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute?</span><br /><span class="indent">Where is he who counted the towers?”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You will see no more the insolent people,</span><br /><span class="indent">the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,</span><br /><span class="indent">stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts!</span><br /><span class="indent">Your eyes will see Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent">an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">whose stakes will never be plucked up,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor will any of its cords be broken.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But there the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in majesty will be for us</span><br /><span class="indent">a place of broad rivers and streams,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">where no galley with oars can go,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor majestic ship can pass.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is our judge; the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is our lawgiver;</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is our king; he will save us.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your cords hang loose;</span><br /><span class="indent">they cannot hold the mast firm in its place</span><br /><span class="indent">or keep the sail spread out.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided;</span><br /><span class="indent">even the lame will take the prey.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/33-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”;</span><br /><span class="indent">the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i>his</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Masoretic Text; 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