Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 33:1-14

1Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

2O LORD, be gracious to us!We wait for You.Be our strength every morningand our salvation in time of trouble.3The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice;the nations scatter when You rise.4Your spoil, O nations,1 is gathered as by locusts;like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

5The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high;He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.6He will be the sure foundation for your times,a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.

7Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets;the envoys of peace weep bitterly.8The highways are deserted;travel has ceased.The treaty2 has been broken,the witnesses3 are despised,and human life is disregarded.9The land mourns and languishes;Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.Sharon is like a desert;Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD.“Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble.Your breath is a fire that will consume you.12The peoples will be burned to ashes,like thorns cut down and set ablaze.13You who are far off, hear what I have done;you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

14The sinners in Zion are afraid;trembling grips the ungodly:“Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire?Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

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Notes

1. Isaiah 33:4 O nations is added for clarity. ↩
2. Isaiah 33:8 Forms of the Hebrew berit are translated in most passages as covenant. ↩
3. Isaiah 33:8 DSS; MT the cities ↩

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