Isaiah 33 — BBE
33Verse 1Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.Verse 2O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.Verse 3At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions.Verse 4And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.Verse 5The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.Verse 6And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.Verse 7See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.Verse 8The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.Verse 9The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.Verse 10Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.Verse 11Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.Verse 12And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.Verse 13Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near.Verse 14The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?Verse 15He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;Verse 16He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.Verse 17Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.Verse 18Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?Verse 19Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.Verse 20Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.Verse 21But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.Verse 22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.Verse 23Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.Verse 24And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.