Isaiah 33-34
Christian Standard Bible
The Lord Rises Up
33 Woe, you destroyer never destroyed,
you traitor never betrayed!
When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed.
When you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.(A)
2 Lord, be gracious to us! We wait for you.(B)
Be our strength every morning
and our salvation in time of trouble.(C)
3 The peoples flee at the thunderous noise;(D)
the nations scatter when you rise in your majesty.
4 Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered;
people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.
5 The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high;
he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 There will be times of security for you—
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.(E)
7 Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;
the messengers of peace weep bitterly.(F)
8 The highways are deserted;
travel has ceased.
An agreement has been broken,(G)
cities[a] despised,
and human life disregarded.
9 The land mourns and withers;(H)
Lebanon is ashamed and wilted.
Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10 “Now I will rise up,”(I) says the Lord.
“Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
11 You will conceive chaff;(J)
you will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is fire that will consume you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
13 You who are far off, hear what I have done;
you who are near,(K) know my strength.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?(L)
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”(M)
15 The one who lives righteously
and speaks rightly,(N)
who refuses profit from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots
and shuts his eyes against evil schemes(O)—
16 he will dwell on the heights;
his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,
his food provided, his water assured.
17 Your eyes will see the King in his beauty;(P)
you will see a vast land.(Q)
18 Your mind will meditate on the past terror:
“Where is the accountant?[b]
Where is the tribute collector?[c]
Where is the one who spied out our defenses?” [d]
19 You will no longer see the barbarians,
a people whose speech is difficult to comprehend—
who stammer in a language that is not understood.(R)
20 Look at Zion, the city of our festival times.
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful pasture,(S) a tent that does not wander;
its tent pegs will not be pulled up
nor will any of its cords be loosened.(T)
21 For the majestic one, our Lord, will be there,(U)
a place of rivers and broad streams
where ships that are rowed will not go,
and majestic vessels will not pass.(V)
22 For the Lord is our Judge,
the Lord is our Lawgiver,(W)
the Lord is our King.
He will save us.(X)
23 Your ropes are slack;
they cannot hold the base of the mast
or spread out the flag.
Then abundant spoil will be divided,
the lame will plunder it,
24 and none there will say, “I am sick.”
The people who dwell there
will be forgiven(Y) their iniquity.(Z)
The Judgment of the Nations
34 You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention!(AA)
Let the earth and all that fills it hear,
the world and all that comes from it.(AB)
2 The Lord is angry with all the nations,
furious with all their armies.(AC)
He will set them apart for destruction,(AD)
giving them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;(AE)
the mountains will flow[e] with their blood.(AF)
4 All[f] the stars in the sky(AG) will dissolve.
The sky will roll up like a scroll,(AH)
and its stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree.(AI)
The Judgment of Edom
5 When my sword has drunk its fill[g](AJ) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom(AK)
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6 The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.(AL)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,(AM)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will be struck[h] down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with[i] blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,(AN)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;(AO)
her land will become burning pitch.
10 It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever.(AP)
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.(AQ)
11 Eagle owls[j] and herons[k] will possess it,
and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there.(AR)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line(AS) over her
for her destruction and chaos.(AT)
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.(AU)
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode[l] for ostriches.(AV)
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the night birds will stay there
and will find a resting place.
15 Sand partridges[m] will make their nests there;
they will lay and hatch their eggs
and will gather their broods under their shadows.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate.(AW)
16 Search and read the scroll of the Lord:(AX)
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because he has ordered it by my[n] mouth,
and he will gather them by his Spirit.
17 He has cast the lot for them;
his hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever;(AY)
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
Footnotes
- 33:8 DSS read witnesses
- 33:18 Lit counter
- 33:18 Lit weigher
- 33:18 Lit who counts towers
- 34:3 Or melt, or dissolve
- 34:4 DSS read And the valleys will be split, and all
- 34:5 DSS read sword will appear
- 34:7 Or will go
- 34:7 Or will drink its fill of
- 34:11 Or Pelicans
- 34:11 Or hedgehogs
- 34:13 DSS, LXX, Syr, Tg; MT reads jackals, grass
- 34:15 Or Arrow snakes, or Owls
- 34:16 Some Hb mss; other Hb mss, DSS, Syr, Tg read his
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