Behold, [a]their messengers shall cry without, and the [b]ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

The [c]paths are waste: the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant: he hath contemned the cities: he regardeth no man.

The earth mourneth and fainteth: Lebanon is ashamed, and hewn down: [d]Sharon is like a wilderness, and Bashan is shaken and Carmel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:7 Sent from Sennacherib.
  2. Isaiah 33:7 Whom they of Jerusalem sent to entreat of peace.
  3. Isaiah 33:8 These are the words of the ambassadors, when they returned from Sennacherib.
  4. Isaiah 33:9 Which was a plentiful country, meaning, that Sennacherib would destroy all.

Look, their brave men(A) cry aloud in the streets;
    the envoys(B) of peace weep bitterly.
The highways are deserted,
    no travelers(C) are on the roads.(D)
The treaty is broken,(E)
    its witnesses[a] are despised,
    no one is respected.
The land dries up(F) and wastes away,
    Lebanon(G) is ashamed and withers;(H)
Sharon(I) is like the Arabah,
    and Bashan(J) and Carmel(K) drop their leaves.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:8 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text / the cities