33 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,
    and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!
When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;
    and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

² Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
    Be our strength every morning,
    our salvation also in the time of trouble.
³ At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
    When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
⁴ Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.
    Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
⁵ Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.
    He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
⁶ There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
    The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

⁷ Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
    the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
⁸ The highways are desolate.
    The traveling man ceases.
    The covenant is broken.
    He has despised the cities.
    He doesn’t respect man.
⁹ The land mourns and languishes.
    Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
    Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
¹⁰ “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.
    “Now I will lift myself up.
    Now I will be exalted.
¹¹ You will conceive chaff.
    You will give birth to stubble.
    Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
¹² The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
    like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

¹³ Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
    and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid.
    Trembling has seized the godless ones.
Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
    Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
¹⁵ He who walks righteously
    and speaks blamelessly,
    he who despises the gain of oppressions,
    who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,
    who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
    and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
¹⁶ he will dwell on high.
    His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.
    His bread will be supplied.
    His waters will be sure.

¹⁷ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
    They will see a distant land.
¹⁸ Your heart will meditate on the terror.
    Where is he who counted?
    Where is he who weighed?
    Where is he who counted the towers?
¹⁹ You will no longer see the fierce people,
    a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend,
    with a strange language that you can’t understand.
²⁰ Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.
    Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,
    a tent that won’t be removed.
Its stakes will never be plucked up,
    nor will any of its cords be broken.
²¹ But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
    a place of wide rivers and streams,
    in which no galley with oars will go,
    neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
²² For Yahweh is our judge.
    Yahweh is our lawgiver.
    Yahweh is our king.
    He will save us.

²³ Your rigging is untied.
    They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast.
    They couldn’t spread the sail.
Then the prey of a great plunder was divided.
    The lame took the prey.

²⁴ The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”
    The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.