Isaiah 33:13-24

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁴ The sinners in Tziyon are frightened;
trembling has seized the ungodly.
“Who of us can live with the devouring fire?
Who of us can live with eternal burning?”
¹⁵ He whose life is right and whose speech is straight,
he who scorns getting rich by extortion,
he who shakes his hands free of bribes,
stops his ears against talk of bloodshed
and shuts his eyes against looking at evil.
¹⁶ Such a person will live on the heights,
his refuge a fortress among the cliffs,
his food and water in steady supply.

¹⁷ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty,
they will gaze on a land stretching into the distance.
¹⁸ Your mind will meditate on the terror:
“Where is the man who did the counting?
Where is the man who did the weighing?
Where is the man who numbered the towers?”
¹⁹ You will not see the intransigent people,
that people whose language is so obscure,
whose stuttering speech you cannot understand.

²⁰ Look at Tziyon, the city of our festivals;
your eyes will see Yerushalayim a secure abode,
a tent that will not be removed,
whose pegs will never be pulled out
and whose guy-ropes will not be cut.
²¹ But there in his splendor Adonai will be with us,
in a place of rivers and broad streams.
But no boat with oars will go there,
no majestic ship will pass by.
²² For Adonai is our judge, Adonai is our lawgiver,
Adonai is our king. He will save us.
²³ For your ropes are hanging loose,
not holding the mast, not spreading the sail.
Then the plunder shared out is so huge
that even the lame get part of the spoil.
²⁴ No inhabitant will say, “I am ill”;
the people living there will be forgiven their sin.