Isaiah 33

1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.Cross-references: Judg 1:7 · 2Ki 18:13 · 2Chr 28:16 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 17:14 · +12 more

2Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.Cross-references: Ex 14:27 · Ps 25:3 · Ps 27:13 · Ps 37:39 · Ps 46:1 · Ps 46:5 · +23 more

3At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.Cross-references: Ps 46:6 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 17:12 · Isa 37:11 · Isa 37:29 · +1 more

4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.Cross-references: 2Ki 7:15 · 2Chr 14:13 · 2Chr 20:25 · Isa 33:23 · Joel 2:9 · Joel 2:25

5Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Ex 15:1 · Ex 15:6 · Ex 18:11 · 2Chr 31:20 · Job 40:9 · +29 more

6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:20 · 2Chr 32:27 · Ps 27:1 · Ps 28:8 · Ps 45:4 · Ps 112:1 · +19 more

7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:18 · 2Ki 18:37 · Isa 36:3 · Isa 36:22

8The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.Cross-references: Judg 5:6 · 1Sam 17:10 · 1Sam 17:26 · 2Ki 18:13 · 2Ki 18:20 · Ps 10:5 · +7 more

9The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.Cross-references: Deut 3:4 · Song 2:1 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 2:13 · Isa 3:26 · Isa 14:8 · +11 more

10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.Cross-references: Ex 14:18 · Ex 15:9 · Deut 32:36 · Ps 7:6 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 46:10 · +10 more

11You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.Cross-references: Job 15:35 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 7:14 · Ps 83:5 · Isa 1:31 · Isa 5:24 · +12 more

12The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:6 · Isa 9:18 · Isa 10:17 · Isa 27:4 · Isa 37:36 · Amos 2:1

13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”Cross-references: Ex 15:14 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 9:9 · 1Sam 17:46 · Ps 46:6 · Ps 48:10 · +13 more

14The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?Cross-references: Num 17:12 · Deut 5:24 · Deut 32:21 · Job 15:21 · Job 18:11 · Ps 11:6 · +30 more

15He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—Cross-references: Ex 23:6 · Num 16:15 · Deut 16:19 · 1Sam 12:3 · 1Sam 24:4 · 1Sam 26:8 · +29 more

16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.Cross-references: Ps 15:1 · Ps 18:33 · Ps 33:18 · Ps 34:10 · Ps 37:3 · Ps 90:1 · +12 more

17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:23 · Ps 31:8 · Ps 45:2 · Song 5:10 · Isa 6:5 · Isa 26:15 · +10 more

18Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?Cross-references: Gen 23:16 · 1Sam 25:33 · 1Sam 30:6 · 2Ki 15:19 · 2Ki 18:14 · 2Ki 18:31 · +9 more

19You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 19:32 · Isa 28:11 · Jer 5:15 · Ezek 3:5 · +1 more

20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.Cross-references: Deut 12:5 · Ps 46:5 · Ps 48:12 · Ps 78:68 · Ps 125:1 · Ps 128:5 · +6 more

21But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.Cross-references: Ps 29:3 · Ps 46:4 · Isa 41:18 · Isa 48:18 · Isa 66:12 · Acts 7:2 · +1 more

22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Deut 33:2 · Neh 10:14 · Ps 44:4 · Ps 50:6 · Ps 74:12 · +22 more

23Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.Cross-references: 1Sam 30:10 · 1Sam 30:22 · 2Ki 7:8 · 2Ki 7:16 · 2Chr 20:25 · Ps 68:12 · +8 more

24The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 7:15 · Deut 28:27 · 2Chr 30:20 · Isa 30:26 · Isa 44:22 · +8 more