1.1Woe to you who plunder, but you will not plunder,
1.2and let no one deal treacherously among you;
1.3for when you seek to plunder,
1.4they will plunder you;
1.5and when you seek to deal treacherously,
1.6they will deal treacherously with you.
Isaiah 33:12.1Master, be favorful to us;
2.2for in you is our trust;
2.3be our helper every morning,
2.4also our salvation in the time of distress.
3.1At the noise of your tumult the people fled;
3.2at the lifting up of yourself the peoples were scattered.
4.1From now on, your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar;
4.2as a swarm of locusts when it is gathered together.
Isaiah 33:2-45.1The Master is exalted, for he lives on high;
5.2he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6.1Faith will be the stability of your times,
6.2and your salvation in a place of refuge; wisdom and knowledge
6.3and the fear of the Master is his treasure.
Isaiah 33:5-67.1If he should be seen by them they will howl violently;
7.2the ambassadors of peace will weep bitterly.
8.1The highways lie waste,
8.2the wayfaring man ceases,
8.3and the contract is broken;
8.4the cities are despised,
8.5and there is no regard for man.
9.1The land mourns and languishes;
9.2Lebanon is ashamed and confounded;
9.3Sharon has become like a plain;
9.4and Bashan and Carmel are desolate.
Isaiah 33:7-910.1Now I will arise, says the Master.
10.2Now I will be exalted;
10.3now I will lift myself up.
11.1You will conceive thorns,
11.2you will bring forth stubble;
11.3your breath, as fire, will devour you.
12.1The peoples will be as the burning of lime;
12.2as thorns that are gathered together they will be burned in the fire.
Isaiah 33:10-1213.1Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
13.2and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14.1The sinners in Zion are afraid;
14.2trembling has seized the heathen.
14.3Who among us will live with devouring fire?
14.4Who among us will live with everlasting burnings?
15.1He who walks righteously
15.2and speaks uprightly;
15.3he who despises treachery and oppression,
15.4who refuses to accept a bribe,
15.5who stops his ears that he may not hear of bloodshed,
15.6and shuts his eyes that he may not see evil.
16.1He will live on high;
16.2his place of defense will be the precipice of rocks;
16.3his bread will be given him;
16.4his water will be sure.
Isaiah 33:13-1617.1Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;
17.2they will look at the lands that are far off.
18.1Your heart will learn fear.
18.2Where is the scribe?
18.3Where is the weigher?
18.4Where is he who counted towers for a mighty people?
19.1You will not see a fierce people,
19.2a people of a deeper speech,
19.3of a stammering tongue, so that he cannot be understood.
Isaiah 33:17-1920.1Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities;
20.2your eyes will see Jerusalem
20.3a rich habitation, a tent that will not be shaken to and fro;
20.4whose pegs will never be removed,
20.5nor will any of its cords be broken.
21.1For there the name of the Master
21.2is glorious to us;
21.3he will be for us a place of light, an enlightenment,
21.4and an open space made by the hand;
21.5in which the authority of a prince will not reign,
21.6nor will the mighty one be able to invade it.
22.1For the Master is our judge,
22.2the Master is our lawgiver,
22.3the Master is our king;
22.4and he is our savior.
Isaiah 33:20-2223.1Your riggings are loosed;
23.2they could not well hold straight their mast,
23.3they could not spread the sail;
23.4until they have divided the prey,
23.5a multitude of lame will take it.
24.1The inhabitant will not say, I am sick;
24.2the people who live in it will be forgiven their iniquity. Isaiah 33:23-24 (Isaiah 33 BRB)