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Isaiah 33 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 33
A Prayer in Deep Distress
Salvation for Those Who Trust in God
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1 Woe to you who plunder, though you have not been plundered;
​​And you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you!
​​When you cease plundering,
​​You will be plundered;
​​When you make an end of dealing treacherously,
​​They will deal treacherously with you.
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2 ​​O LORD, be gracious to us;
​​We have waited for You.
​​Be their[fn] arm every morning,
​​Our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 ​​At the noise of the tumult the people shall flee;
​​When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;
4 ​​And Your plunder shall be gathered
​​Like the gathering of the caterpillar;
​​As the running to and fro of locusts,
​​He shall run upon them.
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5 ​​The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high;
​​He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 ​​Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times,
​​And the strength of salvation;
​​The fear of the LORD is His treasure.
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7 ​​Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside,
​​The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 ​​The highways lie waste,
​​The traveling man ceases.
​​He has broken the covenant,
​​He has despised the cities,[fn]
​​He regards no man.
9 ​​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
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10 ​​“Now I will rise,” says the LORD;
​​“Now I will be exalted,
​​Now I will lift Myself up.
11 ​​You shall conceive chaff,
​​You shall bring forth stubble;
​​Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 ​​And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
​​Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
13 ​​Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done;
​​And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
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14 ​​The sinners in Zion are afraid;
​​Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
​​“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
​​Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15 ​​He who 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 shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
16 ​​He will dwell on 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
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17 ​​Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;
​​They will see the land that is very far off.
18 ​​Your heart will meditate on terror:
​​“Where is the scribe?
​​Where is he who weighs?
​​Where is he who counts the towers?”
19 ​​You will not see a fierce people,
​​A people of obscure speech, beyond perception,
​​Of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand.
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20 ​​Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
​​Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home,
​​A tabernacle that will not be taken down;
​​Not one of its stakes will ever be removed,
​​Nor will any of its cords be broken.
21 ​​But there the majestic LORD will be for us
​​A place of broad rivers and streams,
​​In which no galley with oars will sail,
​​Nor majestic ships pass by
22 ​​(For the LORD is our Judge,
​​The LORD is our Lawgiver,
​​The LORD is our King;
​​He will save us);
23 ​​Your tackle is loosed,
​​They could not strengthen their mast,
​​They could not spread the sail.
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​​Then the prey of great plunder is divided;
​​The lame take the prey.
24 ​​And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;
​​The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Septuagint omits their; Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read our.
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls read witnesses; Septuagint omits cities; Targum reads They have been removed from their cities.
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