Isaiah 33

1Woe to you, destroyer who has not been destroyed! 2Yahweh, be gracious to us; we wait for you; 3At the loud noise the peoples flee; when you arise, the nations are scattered. 4Your spoil is gathered as the locusts gather; as locusts leap, men leap on it. 5Yahweh is exalted. He lives in a high place. He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness. 6He will be the stability in your times, 7Look, their envoys cry in the streets; the diplomats hoping for peace weep bitterly. 8The highways are deserted; there are no more travelers. Instead of witness are despised , some versions have cities are despised . 9The land mourns and withers away; Lebanon is ashamed and withers away; Some versions have The land dries up and withers away . 10“Now will I arise,” says Yahweh; “now I will be lifted up; now I will be elevated. 11You conceive chaff, and you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. 12The peoples will be burned to lime, as thornbushes are cut down and are burned. 13You who are far away, hear what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.” 14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones. 15He who walks righteously and speaks honestly; 16this is the man who will dwell on the heights, 17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see a land off in the distance. 18Your heart will recall the terror; where is the scribe, where is he who weighed the money? Where is he who counted the towers? 19You will no longer see the defiant people, a people of a strange language that you do not understand. 20Look at Zion, the city of our feasts; 21Instead, Yahweh in majesty will be with us, in a place of broad rivers and streams. 22For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us. 23Your riggings are slack; they cannot hold the mast in place; they cannot spread the sail;