Chapter 33
1 Woe 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 finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
2 Yahweh , be gracious to us . We have waited for you . Be our strength every morning , our salvation also in the time of trouble .
3 At the noise of the thunder , the peoples have fled . When you lift yourself up , the nations are scattered .
4 Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
5 Yahweh is exalted , for he dwells on high . He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness .
6 There will be stability in your times , abundance of salvation , wisdom , and knowledge . The fear of Yahweh is your treasure .
7 Behold , their valiant ones cry outside ; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly .
8 The highways are desolate . The traveling man ceases . The covenant is broken . He has despised the cities . He doesn’t respect man .
9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away . Sharon is like a desert , and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10 " Now I will arise ," says Yahweh . " Now I will lift myself up . Now I will be exalted .
11 You will conceive chaff . You will give birth to stubble . Your breath is a fire that will devour you .
12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime , like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire .
13 Hear , you who are far off , what I have done ; and , you who are near , acknowledge my might ."
14 The 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 ?
15 He 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 bloodshed , and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
16 he will dwell on high . His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks . His bread will be supplied . His waters will be sure.
17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty . They will see a distant land.
18 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted ? Where is he who weighed ? Where is he who counted the towers ?
19 You 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 .
20 Look 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 .
21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams , in which no galley with oars will go , neither will any gallant ship pass by there .
22 For Yahweh is our judge . Yahweh is our lawgiver . Yahweh is our king . He will save us .
23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast . They couldn’t spread the sail . Then the prey of a great plunder was divided . The lame took the prey .
24 The inhabitant won’t say, " I am sick ." The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity .