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A Plea for Deliverance and the Lord's Judgment

Isaiah 33:1-24

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Chapter 33
1 Alas, plunderer, and you not plundered, and betrayer, not betrayed in him; as you have finished plundering, you will be plundered; as your betrayal ends, they will betray you. 2 LORD, be gracious to us; we have hoped in you. Be their arm in the morning; even our salvation in the time of distress. 3 At the sound of the tumult peoples fled; at your exaltation nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil will be gathered, gathered like the locust, like the locust-swarm of locusts swarming in it. 5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. 6 And there will be faithfulness of your times: a strength of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is his treasure. 7 Behold, their Ariel cries out. He has gone outside, angels of shalom. Bitterly they weep. 8 They have forsaken the highways; the traveled path has transgressed. He has broken the covenant; he has rejected the cities; he has not reckoned humanity. 9 Indeed the land mourns, the Haphir languishes, Lebanon has withered, the Sharon was like the steppe, and Bashan shakes, and Carmel. 10 "Now I will arise," says the LORD; "now I will be exalted; now I will lift myself up." 11 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your spirit, fire will devour you. 12 And peoples will be burnings of lime; thorns like briers in fire they will kindle. 13 Hear, you distant ones, what I have done, and know, you near ones, my might. 14 Sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling has seized the hypocrites. Who will sojourn with us? Consuming Fire! Who will sojourn with us? Burnings of eternity! 15 He who walks in righteousnesses and speaks uprightnesses, who rejects gain of oppressions, who shakes off his hands from taking hold of a bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing bloods, and who closes his eyes from seeing evil. 16 He will dwell on the heights; rock fortresses are his stronghold. He gives his bread; his waters are faithful. 17 Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a far-stretching land. 18 Your heart will meditate on terror: Where is the Book? Where is the shekel? Where is the one who counts the towers? 19 You will not see a bold people, a people deep of lip, unintelligible of tongue—a tongue there is no understanding. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a secure dwelling, a tent whose pegs will never be pulled up, whose cords will never be torn loose. 21 For there the majestic LORD is to us a place of rivers, broad streams where no hand can reach; no galley shall go in it, no majestic warship shall pass it. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king—he will save us. 23 Your ropes have let go—they will not strengthen. In this way your mast—it will not spread the banner. Then a division of the spoil—a multitude; the lame have plundered the plunder. 24 And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people dwelling in it have borne iniquity.