Bible-Reading.comIsaiah 33
1Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
2O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.
3At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions.
4And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.
5The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
6And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.
7See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
8The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.
9The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.
10Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
11Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
12And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
13Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near.
14The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
15He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
16He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
17Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.
18Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?
19Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.
20Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.
21But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.
22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.
23Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.
24And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.
Isaiah 34
1Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.
2For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.
3Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.
4And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.
5For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.
6The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.
7And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.
8For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.
9And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.
10It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.
11But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.
12The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.
13And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
14And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.
15The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.
16See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together.
17And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.
Isaiah 35
1The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
2It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
3Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.
4Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.
5Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.
6Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.
7And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.
8And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
9No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,
10Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.