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Isaiah 33 New King James Version (NKJV)

A Prayer in Deep Distress

33 Woe to you ^(A)who plunder, though you have not been plundered;
And you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you!
^(B)When you cease plundering,
You will be ^(C)plundered;
When you make an end of dealing treacherously,
They will deal treacherously with you.

²O Lord, be gracious to us;
^(D)We have waited for You.
Be ^[a]their arm every morning,
Our salvation also in the time of trouble.
³At the noise of the tumult the people ^(E)shall flee;
When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;
⁴And Your plunder shall be gathered
Like the gathering of the caterpillar;
As the running to and fro of locusts,
He shall run upon them.

⁵^(F)The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high;
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
⁶Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times,
And the strength of salvation;
The fear of the Lord is His treasure.

⁷Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside,
^(G)The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
⁸^(H)The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
^(I)He has broken the covenant,
^[b]He has despised the ^[c]cities,
He regards no man.
⁹^(J)The earth mourns and languishes,
Lebanon is shamed and shriveled;
Sharon is like a wilderness,
And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Impending Judgment on Zion

¹⁰“Now^(K) I will rise,” says the Lord;
“Now I will be exalted,
Now I will lift Myself up.
¹¹^(L)You shall conceive chaff,
You shall bring forth stubble;
Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
¹²And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
^(M)Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
¹³Hear, ^(N)you who are afar off, what I have done;
And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

¹⁴The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring ^(O)fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
¹⁵He who ^(P)walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And ^(Q)shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
¹⁶He will dwell on ^[d]high;
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks;
Bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.

The Land of the Majestic King

¹⁷Your eyes will see the King in His ^(R)beauty;
They will see the land that is very far off.
¹⁸Your heart will meditate on terror:
^(S)“Where is the scribe?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”
¹⁹^(T)You will not see a fierce people,
^(U)A people of obscure speech, beyond perception,
Of a ^[e]stammering tongue that you cannot understand.

²⁰^(V)Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see ^(W)Jerusalem, a quiet home,
A tabernacle that will not be taken down;
^(X)Not one of ^(Y)its stakes will ever be removed,
Nor will any of its cords be broken.
²¹But there the majestic Lord will be for us
A place of broad rivers and streams,
In which no ^[f]galley with oars will sail,
Nor majestic ships pass by
²²(For the Lord is our ^(Z)Judge,
The Lord is our ^(AA)Lawgiver,
^(AB)The Lord is our King;
He will save us);
²³Your tackle is loosed,
They could not strengthen their mast,
They could not spread the sail.

Then the prey of great plunder is divided;
The lame take the prey.
²⁴And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;
^(AC)The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.

New King James Version (NKJV)