Isaiah 33  Christian Standard Bible

⁸ The highways are deserted;
travel has ceased.
An agreement has been broken,^(G)
cities^[a] despised,
and human life disregarded.
⁹ The land mourns and withers;^(H)
Lebanon is ashamed and wilted.
Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
¹⁰ “Now I will rise up,”^(I) says the Lord.
“Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
¹¹ You will conceive chaff;^(J)
you will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is fire that will consume you.
¹² The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
¹³ You who are far off, hear what I have done;
you who are near,^(K) know my strength.”
¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?^(L)
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”^(M)
15 The one who lives righteously
and speaks rightly,^(N)
who refuses profit from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots
and shuts his eyes against evil schemes^(O)—
¹⁶ he will dwell on the heights;
his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,
his food provided, his water assured.
¹⁷ Your eyes will see the King in his beauty;^(P)
you will see a vast land.^(Q)
18 Your mind will meditate on the past terror:
“Where is the accountant?^[b]
Where is the tribute collector?^[c]
Where is the one who spied out our defenses?” ^[d]
19 You will no longer see the barbarians,
a people whose speech is difficult to comprehend—
who stammer in a language that is not understood.^(R)
20 Look at Zion, the city of our festival times.
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful pasture,^(S) a tent that does not wander;
its tent pegs will not be pulled up
nor will any of its cords be loosened.^(T)
21 For the majestic one, our Lord, will be there,^(U)
a place of rivers and broad streams
where ships that are rowed will not go,
and majestic vessels will not pass.^(V)
22 For the Lord is our Judge,
the Lord is our Lawgiver,^(W)
the Lord is our King.
He will save us.^(X)
23 Your ropes are slack;
they cannot hold the base of the mast
or spread out the flag.
Then abundant spoil will be divided,
the lame will plunder it,
²⁴ and none there will say, “I am sick.”
The people who dwell there
will be forgiven^(Y) their iniquity.^(Z)