Isaiah 32-33

New American Standard Bible

The Glorious Future

32 Behold, a ^(A)king will reign righteously,
And officials will rule justly.
²Each will be like a ^(B)refuge from the wind
And a shelter from the storm,
Like ^[a]^(C)streams of water in a dry country,
Like the ^(D)shade of a ^[b]huge rock in an exhausted land.
³Then ^(E)the eyes of those who see will not be ^[c]blinded,
And the ears of those who hear will listen.
⁴The ^[d]mind of the ^(F)rash will discern the ^[e]truth,
And the tongue of the stammerers will hurry to speak clearly.
⁵No longer will the ^(G)fool be called noble,
Or the rogue be spoken of as generous.
⁶For a fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart ^[f]^(H)inclines toward wickedness:
To practice ^(I)ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,
To ^[g]^(J)keep the hungry person unsatisfied
And ^[h]to withhold drink from the thirsty.
⁷As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;
He ^(K)devises wicked schemes
To ^(L)destroy the poor with ^[i]slander,
^(M)Even though the needy one speaks ^[j]what is right.
⁸But ^(N)the noble person devises noble plans;
And by noble plans he stands.

⁹Rise up, you ^(O)women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;
^(P)Listen to my word,
You complacent daughters.
¹⁰Within a year and a few days
You will be troubled, you complacent daughters;
^(Q)For the vintage is ended,
And the fruit gathering will not come.
¹¹Tremble, you women who are at ease;
^(R)Be troubled, you complacent daughters;
^(S)Strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,
¹²^(T)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
¹³^(U)For the land of my people in which thorns and briars will come up;
Indeed, for all the joyful houses and for the ^(V)jubilant city.
¹⁴For ^(W)the palace has been neglected, the ^[k]populated ^(X)city abandoned.
^[l]Hill and watch-tower have become ^(Y)caves forever,
A delight for ^(Z)wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
¹⁵Until the ^(AA)Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a ^(AB)fertile field,
And the fertile field is considered as a forest.
¹⁶Then ^(AC)justice will dwell in the wilderness,
And righteousness will remain in the fertile field.
¹⁷And the ^(AD)work of righteousness will be peace,
And the service of righteousness, ^(AE)quietness and ^[m]confidence forever.
¹⁸Then my people will live in a ^(AF)peaceful settlement,
In secure dwellings, and in undisturbed ^(AG)resting places;
¹⁹And it will ^(AH)hail when the ^(AI)forest comes down,
And ^(AJ)the city will be utterly laid low.
²⁰How ^(AK)blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters,
Who ^[n]let the ox and the donkey out freely.

The Judgment of God

33 Woe ^(AL)to you, destroyer,
While you were not destroyed;
And he ^(AM)who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him.
As soon as you finish destroying, ^(AN)you will be destroyed;
As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will ^(AO)deal treacherously with you.
²Lord, ^(AP)be gracious to us; we have ^(AQ)waited for You.
Be ^[o]their ^[p]^(AR)strength every morning,
Our salvation also in the ^(AS)time of distress.
³At the sound of a roar, ^(AT)peoples flee;
At the ^(AU)lifting up of Yourself, nations disperse.
⁴Your plunder is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
Like an infestation of locusts, people storm it.
⁵The Lord is ^(AV)exalted, for He dwells on high;
He has ^(AW)filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
⁶And He will be the ^[q]^(AX)stability of your times,
A ^(AY)wealth of salvation, wisdom, and ^(AZ)knowledge;
The ^(BA)fear of the Lord is his treasure.
⁷Behold, their brave men cry out ^[r]in the streets,
The ^[s]^(BB)ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
⁸The highways are desolate, ^[t]the ^(BC)traveler has ceased,
He has ^(BD)broken the covenant, he has despised the cities,
He has no regard for mankind.
⁹^(BE)The land mourns and wastes away,
^(BF)Lebanon is shamed and withers;
^(BG)Sharon is like a desert plain,
And Bashan and Carmel ^[u]lose their foliage.
¹⁰“Now ^(BH)I will arise,” says the Lord,
“Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.
¹¹You have ^(BI)conceived ^[v]chaff, you will give birth to stubble;
^[w]My ^(BJ)breath will consume you like a fire.
¹²The peoples will be burned to lime,
^(BK)Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

¹³“You who are far away, ^(BL)hear what I have done;
And you who are near, ^[x]acknowledge My might.”
¹⁴^(BM)Sinners in Zion are terrified;
^(BN)Trembling has seized the godless.
“Who among us can live with ^(BO)the consuming fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting ^(BP)burning?”
¹⁵One who ^(BQ)walks righteously and speaks with integrity,
One who rejects ^[y]unjust gain
And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;
One who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed
And ^(BR)shuts his eyes from looking at evil;
¹⁶He will dwell on the heights,
^(BS)His refuge will be the ^[z]impregnable rock;
^(BT)His bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.

¹⁷Your eyes will see ^(BU)the King in His beauty;
They will see ^(BV)a distant land.
¹⁸Your heart will meditate on ^(BW)terror:
“Where is ^(BX)one who counts?
Where is one who weighs?
Where is one who counts the towers?”
¹⁹You will no longer see a fierce people,
A people of ^[aa]^(BY)unintelligible speech ^[ab]which no one comprehends,
Of a stammering tongue ^[ac]which no one understands.
²⁰^(BZ)Look at Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an ^(CA)undisturbed settlement,
^(CB)A tent which will not be folded;
Its stakes will never be pulled up,
Nor any of its ropes be torn apart.
²¹But there the majestic One, the Lord, will be for us
A place of ^(CC)rivers and wide canals
On which no boat with oars will go,
And on which no mighty ship will pass—
²²For the Lord is our ^(CD)judge,
The Lord is ^(CE)our lawgiver,
The Lord is ^(CF)our king;
^(CG)He will save us—
²³Your ship’s tackle hangs slack;
It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly,
Nor spread out the sail.
Then the ^(CH)prey of an abundant spoil will be divided;
^(CI)Those who limp will take the plunder.
²⁴And no resident will say, “I am ^(CJ)sick”;
The people who live ^[ad]there will be ^(CK)forgiven their wrongdoing.

Footnotes

Isaiah 32:2 Lit canals
Isaiah 32:2 Lit heavy
Isaiah 32:3 Or turned away
Isaiah 32:4 Lit heart
Isaiah 32:4 Lit knowledge
Isaiah 32:6 Or does
Isaiah 32:6 Lit make empty the hungry soul
Isaiah 32:6 Lit he deprives the thirsty
Isaiah 32:7 Lit words of falsehood
Isaiah 32:7 Lit justly
Isaiah 32:14 Lit multitude of the
Isaiah 32:14 Or Ophel
Isaiah 32:17 Or security
Isaiah 32:20 Lit send out the foot of the ox
Isaiah 33:2 Some ancient versions our
Isaiah 33:2 Lit arm
Isaiah 33:6 Or faithfulness
Isaiah 33:7 Lit outside
Isaiah 33:7 Lit messengers
Isaiah 33:8 Lit one who passes along the way
Isaiah 33:9 Lit shake off
Isaiah 33:11 Lit dry grass
Isaiah 33:11 One ancient version; MT Your breath will
Isaiah 33:13 Lit know
Isaiah 33:15 Lit gain of extortioners
Isaiah 33:16 Lit stronghold of rock
Isaiah 33:19 Lit deepness of lip
Isaiah 33:19 Lit from hearing
Isaiah 33:19 Lit there is no understanding
Isaiah 33:24 Lit in it

Colossians 1

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Thankfulness for Spiritual Attainments

1 ^(A)Paul, ^(B)an apostle of Christ Jesus ^[a]^(C)by the will of God, and ^(D)Timothy ^[b]our brother,

²To the ^[c]^(E)saints and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ who are at Colossae: ^(F)Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

³^(G)We ^[d]give thanks to God, ^(H)the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, ⁴^(I)since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the ^(J)love which you have ^[e]for ^(K)all the ^[f]saints; ⁵because of the ^(L)hope ^(M)reserved for you in ^[g]heaven, of which you previously ^(N)heard in the word of truth, ^[h]the gospel ⁶which has come to you, just as ^[i]^(O)in all the world also it is bearing ^(P)fruit and ^[j]increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you ^(Q)heard it and ^[k]understood the grace of God in truth; ⁷just as you learned it from ^(R)Epaphras, our ^(S)beloved fellow bond-servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, ⁸and he also informed us of your ^(T)love in the Spirit.

⁹For this reason we also, ^(U)since the day we heard about it, ^(V)have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the ^[l]^(W)knowledge of His will in all spiritual ^(X)wisdom and understanding, ¹⁰so that you will ^(Y)walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, ^[m]^(Z)to please Him in all respects, ^(AA)bearing fruit in every good work and ^[n]increasing in the ^[o]knowledge of God; ¹¹^(AB)strengthened with all power, according to ^[p]His glorious might, ^[q]for the attaining of all perseverance and ^[r]patience; ^(AC)joyously ¹²giving thanks to ^(AD)the Father, who has qualified us ^[s]to share in ^(AE)the inheritance of the ^[t]saints in ^(AF)light.

The Incomparable Christ

¹³^[u]For He rescued us from the ^[v]^(AG)domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of ^[w]^(AH)His beloved Son, ¹⁴^(AI)in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

¹⁵^[x]He is the ^(AJ)image of the ^(AK)invisible God, the ^(AL)firstborn of all creation: ¹⁶for ^[y]^(AM)by Him all things were created, ^(AN)both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether ^(AO)thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—^(AP)all things have been created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷He ^[z]^(AQ)is before all things, and in Him all things ^[aa]hold together. ¹⁸He is also the ^(AR)head of ^(AS)the body, the church; and He is ^(AT)the beginning, ^(AU)the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. ¹⁹For ^[ab]it was ^(AV)the Father’s good pleasure for all ^(AW)the ^[ac]fullness to dwell in Him, ²⁰and through Him to ^(AX)reconcile all things to Himself, ^(AY)whether things on earth or things in ^[ad]heaven, having made ^(AZ)peace through ^(BA)the blood of His cross.

²¹And although you were ^(BB)previously alienated and hostile in attitude, engaged in evil deeds, ²²yet He has now ^(BC)reconciled you in His ^(BD)body of flesh through death, in order to ^(BE)present you before Him ^(BF)holy and blameless and beyond reproach— ²³if indeed you continue in ^[ae]the faith firmly ^(BG)established and steadfast, and not shifting from the ^(BH)hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed ^(BI)in all creation under heaven, ^(BJ)and of which I, Paul, ^[af]was made a ^[ag]^(BK)minister.

²⁴^(BL)Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh ^(BM)I am supplementing what is lacking ^[ah]in Christ’s afflictions in behalf of ^(BN)His body, which is the church. ²⁵^(BO)I ^[ai]was made a minister of this church according to the ^(BP)commission from God granted to me for your benefit, so that I might ^[aj]fully carry out the preaching of the word of God, ²⁶that is, ^(BQ)the mystery which had been hidden from the past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His ^[ak]saints, ²⁷to whom ^(BR)God willed to make known what ^(BS)the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is ^(BT)Christ in you, the ^(BU)hope of glory. ²⁸We proclaim Him, ^(BV)admonishing every person and teaching every person ^[al]with all ^(BW)wisdom, so that we may ^(BX)present every person ^[am]^(BY)complete in Christ. ²⁹For this purpose I also ^(BZ)labor, ^(CA)striving ^(CB)according to His ^[an]power which ^[ao]works mightily within me.