Isaiah 33-35

Isaiah 33

¹Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.

²O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

³From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations.

⁴And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.

⁵Set on high is Jehovah, for He is dwelling on high, He filled Zion with judgment and righteousness,

⁶And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it is His treasure.

⁷Lo, ‘Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.

⁸Desolated have been highways, Ceased hath he who passeth along the path, He hath broken covenant, He hath despised enemies, He hath not esteemed a man.

⁹Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.

¹⁰Now, do I arise, saith Jehovah, Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.

¹¹Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.

¹²And peoples have been as burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.

¹³Hear, ye far off, that which I have done, And know, ye near ones, My might.

¹⁴Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us -- burnings of the age?

¹⁵Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

¹⁶He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

¹⁷A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.

¹⁸Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where is he who is counting? Where is he who is weighing? Where is he who is counting the towers?

¹⁹The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.

²⁰See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.

²¹But there mighty is Jehovah for us, A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.

²²For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our king -- He doth save us.

²³Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.

²⁴Nor doth an inhabitant say, ‘I was sick,' The people that is dwelling in it, is forgiven of iniquity!

Isaiah 34

¹Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.

²For wrath is to Jehovah against all the nations, And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath given them to slaughter.

³And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.

⁴And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.

⁵For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.

⁶A sword is to Jehovah -- it hath been full of blood, It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice is to Jehovah in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.

⁸(For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)

⁹And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

¹⁰By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

¹¹And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

¹²To the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

¹³And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble are in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

¹⁴And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.

¹⁵There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.

¹⁶Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.

¹⁷And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned it to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!

Isaiah 35

¹They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,

²Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, with joy and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They -- they see the honour of Jehovah, The majesty of our God.

³Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

⁴Say to the hastened of heart, ‘Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'

⁵Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,

⁶Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.

⁷And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.

⁸And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the ‘way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.

⁹No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,

¹⁰And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!