Isaiah 33:17-24

The Voice

¹⁷ Ah, you will see for yourself the beauty of the One who rules over all.
    Your eyes will take in a land that stretches far beyond the horizon.
¹⁸ You will think back on the terror you experienced:
    “Where is the officer who counted the plunder, weighed out our taxes, and calculated our defenses?”
¹⁹ You will no longer see rude and arrogant people in charge of the city,
    and you will no longer have to listen to their strange babbling and incomprehensible muttering.
²⁰ Ah, just look at Zion! The city where we celebrate,
    where we make our God-appointed feasts.
You’ll see a Jerusalem at peace, untroubled, undisturbed,
    like a permanent tent with stakes driven deep and ropes that never break.
²¹ There, the Eternal, so splendid and regal,
    will be for us a place of broad rivers and wide canals.
No large boats will pass through them—
    no mighty ships will sail their waters.
²² For the Eternal One is our Judge; He has prescribed our laws;
    He rules over us, and He is the One who will save us.
²³ You who try to sail in will be unable,
    as if your lines are limp, your mast is wobbly, and your sails are furled.
The spoils in your hold will be divided among the deserving.
    Even those who can hardly walk will take what you had taken.
²⁴ And nobody who lives in God’s city will say he doesn’t feel well.
    For everyone will be washed clean and forgiven for their wrongdoing.