Isaiah 33

¹Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed,

²O LORD, be gracious to us!

³The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice;

⁴Your spoil, O nations, 33:4 O nations is added for clarity. is gathered as by locusts;

⁵The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high;

⁶He will be the sure foundation for your times,

⁷Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets;

⁸The highways are deserted;

⁹The land mourns and languishes;

¹⁰“Now I will arise,” says the LORD.

¹¹You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble.

¹²The peoples will be burned to ashes,

¹³You who are far off, hear what I have done;

¹⁴The sinners in Zion are afraid;

¹⁵He who walks righteously

¹⁶he will dwell on the heights;

¹⁷Your eyes will see the King in His beauty

¹⁸Your mind will ponder the former terror:

¹⁹You will no longer see the insolent,

²⁰Look upon Zion,

²¹But there the Majestic One, our LORD,

²²For the LORD is our Judge,

²³Your ropes are slack;

²⁴And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.”