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    Isaiah 33

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    The city is promised rivers broad enough for grand ships, and then—rather pointedly—no ship is allowed to use them.

    The destroyer meets his oppositevv. 1–13

    The chapter opens with a destroyer who has never been destroyed and a traitor who has never been betrayed. Their turn will come. Meanwhile the LORD is asked for strength each morning, while peoples flee, nations scatter, and spoil is swept up like locusts. The streets contain crying valiant ones and weeping envoys; the highways are deserted, the treaty broken, and the land itself seems to shed its leaves. Then the LORD rises, and the grand machinery of human menace proves combustible.

    The fire and the mountain refugevv. 14–19

    The sinners in Zion hear of consuming fire and everlasting flames, and ask who can live there. The answer is a person described by his conduct: he speaks sincerely, refuses extortion and bribes, and will not lend his ears or eyes to murderous evil. Such a one is given a mountain fortress, food, and assured water. The former terror then shrinks into an oddly precise set of missing occupations: tallying, weighing, and counting the towers. Even catastrophe, it seems, once had clerks.

    A city with impossible watersvv. 20–24

    Zion is shown as a peaceful tent that will not wander, while Jerusalem becomes a pasture with pegs and cords firmly in place. Beside it stands the Majestic One, with rivers and wide canals—but no galley, oared or majestic, will pass through them. The picture then swerves from slack ship rigging to a plentiful division of spoils, in which even the lame carry plunder. The LORD is Judge, lawgiver, and King; the residents of Zion are left with forgiveness rather than sickness.

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    1. Isa 33:1Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

    2. Isa 33:2O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.

    3. Isa 33:3The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

    4. Isa 33:4Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

    5. Isa 33:5The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

    6. Isa 33:6He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.

    7. Isa 33:7Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

    8. Isa 33:8The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

    9. Isa 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

    10. Isa 33:10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.

    11. Isa 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

    12. Isa 33:12The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

    13. Isa 33:13You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

    14. Isa 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

    15. Isa 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

    16. Isa 33:16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

    17. Isa 33:17Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.

    18. Isa 33:18Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

    19. Isa 33:19You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

    20. Isa 33:20Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

    21. Isa 33:21But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

    22. Isa 33:22For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

    23. Isa 33:23Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

    24. Isa 33:24And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

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    • 6Psalms 112:1–3Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
    • 6Proverbs 19:23The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
    • 22 Corinthians 1:3–4Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
    • 61 Timothy 4:8For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
    • 15Psalms 119:37Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
    • 22James 4:12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
    • 22Acts 5:31God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
    • 24Jeremiah 50:20In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
    • 24Revelation 21:4‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
    • 6Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
    • 6Proverbs 14:27The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
    • 24Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
    • 241 John 1:7–9But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
    • 2Isaiah 59:16He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
    • 2Isaiah 30:18–19Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
    • 61 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

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