Isaiah 33:7-22

New King James Version

⁷Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside,
^(A)The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
⁸^(B)The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
^(C)He has broken the covenant,
^[a]He has despised the ^[b]cities,
He regards no man.
⁹^(D)The earth mourns and languishes,
Lebanon is shamed and shriveled;
Sharon is like a wilderness,
And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Impending Judgment on Zion

¹⁰“Now^(E) I will rise,” says the Lord;
“Now I will be exalted,
Now I will lift Myself up.
¹¹^(F)You shall conceive chaff,
You shall bring forth stubble;
Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
¹²And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
^(G)Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
¹³Hear, ^(H)you who are afar off, what I have done;
And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

¹⁴The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring ^(I)fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
¹⁵He who ^(J)walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And ^(K)shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
¹⁶He will dwell on ^[c]high;
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks;
Bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.

The Land of the Majestic King

¹⁷Your eyes will see the King in His ^(L)beauty;
They will see the land that is very far off.
¹⁸Your heart will meditate on terror:
^(M)“Where is the scribe?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”
¹⁹^(N)You will not see a fierce people,
^(O)A people of obscure speech, beyond perception,
Of a ^[d]stammering tongue that you cannot understand.

²⁰^(P)Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see ^(Q)Jerusalem, a quiet home,
A tabernacle that will not be taken down;
^(R)Not one of ^(S)its stakes will ever be removed,
Nor will any of its cords be broken.
²¹But there the majestic Lord will be for us
A place of broad rivers and streams,
In which no ^[e]galley with oars will sail,
Nor majestic ships pass by
²²(For the Lord is our ^(T)Judge,
The Lord is our ^(U)Lawgiver,
^(V)The Lord is our King;
He will save us);