Isaiah 33:17-24

New American Standard Bible

¹⁷ Your eyes will see ^(A)the King in His beauty;
They will see ^(B)a distant land.
¹⁸ Your heart will meditate on ^(C)terror:
“Where is ^(D)one who counts?
Where is one who weighs?
Where is one who counts the towers?”
¹⁹ You will no longer see a fierce people,
A people of ^[a](E)unintelligible speech ^[b]which no one comprehends,
Of a stammering tongue ^[c]which no one understands.
^20 (F)Look at Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an ^(G)undisturbed settlement,
^(H)A tent which will not be folded;
Its stakes will never be pulled up,
Nor any of its ropes be torn apart.
²¹ But there the majestic One, the Lord, will be for us
A place of ^(I)rivers and wide canals
On which no boat with oars will go,
And on which no mighty ship will pass—
²² For the Lord is our ^(J)judge,
The Lord is ^(K)our lawgiver,
The Lord is ^(L)our king;
^(M)He will save us—
²³ Your ship’s tackle hangs slack;
It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly,
Nor spread out the sail.
Then the ^(N)prey of an abundant spoil will be divided;
^(O)Those who limp will take the plunder.
²⁴ And no resident will say, “I am ^(P)sick”;
The people who live ^[d]there will be ^(Q)forgiven their wrongdoing.