Isaiah 33:17-24

Common English Bible

¹⁷ When you gaze upon a king in his glamour
    and look at the surrounding land,
¹⁸     in dismay you will think:
    Where is the one who counts?
    Where is the one who weighs?
    Where is the one who counts towers?
¹⁹ You will no longer see the defiant people,
    the people of speech too obscure to understand,
    who stammer in an incomprehensible language.
²⁰ Gaze upon Zion, our festival town.
    Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
    a carefree dwelling,
    a tent that is not packed up,
    whose stakes are never pulled up,
    whose ropes won’t snap.
²¹ The Lord’s majesty will be there for us:
    as a place of rivers, broad streams
    where no boat will go,
    no majestic ship will cross.
²² The Lord is our judge;
    the Lord is our leader;
    the Lord is our king—
    he will deliver us.
²³ Your ropes are loosened;
    they can’t hold the mast firmly;
    they can’t spread the sail.
Then abundant spoil will be divided;
    even the lame will seize spoil.
²⁴ And no inhabitant will say, “I’m sick.”
    The people living there will be forgiven their sin.