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title: Isaiah 33
slug: kjv/isaiah-33
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:21:50.485Z
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**1 **Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou *wast* not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; *and* when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

**2 **O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

**3 **At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

**4 **And your spoil shall be gathered *like* the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

**5 **The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

**6 **And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, *and* strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD *is* his treasure.

**7 **Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

**8 **The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

**9 **The earth mourneth *and* languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed *and* hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off *their fruits*.

**10 **Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

**11 **Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, *as* fire, shall devour you.

**12 **And the people shall be *as* the burnings of lime: *as* thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

**13 **Hear, ye *that are* far off, what I have done; and, ye *that are* near, acknowledge my might.

**14 **The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

**15 **He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

**16 **He shall dwell on high: his place of defence *shall be* the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters *shall be* sure.

**17 **Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

**18 **Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where *is* the scribe? where *is* the receiver? where *is* he that counted the towers?

**19 **Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, *that thou canst* not understand.

**20 **Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle *that* shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

**21 **But there the glorious LORD *will be* unto us a place of broad rivers *and* streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

**22 **For the LORD *is* our judge, the LORD *is* our lawgiver, the LORD *is* our king; he will save us.

**23 **Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

**24 **And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein *shall be* forgiven *their* iniquity.