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.

10 “Now will I arise,(L)” says the Lord.
    “Now will I be exalted;(M)
    now will I be lifted up.
11 You conceive(N) chaff,
    you give birth(O) to straw;
    your breath is a fire(P) that consumes you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes;(Q)
    like cut thornbushes(R) they will be set ablaze.(S)

13 You who are far away,(T) hear(U) what I have done;
    you who are near, acknowledge my power!
14 The sinners(V) in Zion are terrified;
    trembling(W) grips the godless:
“Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire?(X)
    Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”

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Footnotes

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

Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

10 Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

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