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Isaiah 33 Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 Woe to you who plunder! Will you yourselves not also be plundered? And woe to you who despise! Will you yourselves not also be despised? When you will have completed your plundering, you will be plundered. When, out of fatigue, you will have ceased acting with contempt, you will be treated with contempt.
1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
2 O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.
2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 From the voice of the Angel, the people fled. And from your exultation, the nations were scattered.
3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
4 And your spoils will be gathered together, just as the locusts are collected when the ditches have become filled with them.
4 Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
5 The Lord has been magnified, because he has lived on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.
5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 And there will be faith in your times: the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
7 Behold, outside, those who see will cry out. The Angels of peace will weep bitterly.
7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
8 The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.
8 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
9 The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together.
9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10 “Now, I will rise up!” says the Lord. “Now I will be exalted! Now I will lift myself up!”
10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
11 You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.
11 You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
12 And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.
12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
13 “You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!”
13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
14 The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
15 The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.
15 He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
16 Such a one will live on high; the fortification of rocks will be his lofty place. Bread has been given to him; his waters are reliable.
16 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
17 His eyes will see the king in his elegance; they will discern the land from far away.
17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
18 Your heart will meditate on fear. Where are the learned? Where are those who ponder the words of the law? Where are the teachers of little ones?
18 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
19 You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom.
19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.
20 Look with favor upon Zion, the city of our solemnity. Your eyes will behold Jerusalem: an opulent habitation, a tabernacle that can never be taken away. Its stakes will not be taken away forever, nor will any of its cords be broken.
20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
21 For only in that place has our Lord been magnified. It is a place of rivers, very broad and open. No ship with oars will cross through it, nor will the great Greek ship pass through it.
21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
22 For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He himself will save us.
22 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
23 Your ropes have become loose, and they will not prevail. Your mast will be such that you will not be able to unfurl a flag. Then the spoils of much plunder will be divided. The lame will seize the spoils.
23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
24 He who is nearby will not say: “I am too weak.” The people who live in it will have their iniquity taken away from them.
24 The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Matthew 7:2; Isaiah 24:16; Isaiah 10:12; Revelation 17:17; Obadiah 10–16
- 2 2 Corinthians 1:3–4; Isaiah 30:18–19; Isaiah 59:16; Psalm 62:8; Psalm 60:11
- 3 Isaiah 10:13–14; Isaiah 10:32–34; Isaiah 37:11–18; Isaiah 59:16–18; Psalm 46:6
- 4 2 Chronicles 20:25; Isaiah 33:23; 2 Chronicles 14:13; Joel 2:9; Joel 2:25
- 5 Isaiah 2:17; Romans 11:26; Revelation 19:2–6; Daniel 4:37; Ephesians 1:20–21
- 6 Psalm 112:1–3; Proverbs 19:23; 1 Timothy 4:8; Matthew 6:33; Proverbs 14:27
- 7 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37–19:3; Isaiah 36:22; Isaiah 36:3
- 8 Judges 5:6; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 10:29–31; Lamentations 1:4; Isaiah 10:9–11
- 9 Isaiah 35:2; Isaiah 65:10; Nahum 1:4; Zechariah 11:1–3; Isaiah 3:26
- 10 Psalm 12:5; Psalm 102:13–18; Amos 6:1; Isaiah 42:13–14; Isaiah 59:16–17
- 11 Isaiah 59:4; Psalm 7:14; James 1:15; Acts 5:4; Isaiah 10:7–14
- 12 2 Samuel 23:6–7; Isaiah 27:4; Isaiah 37:36; Amos 2:1; Isaiah 10:17
- 13 Psalm 48:10; Ephesians 2:11–18; Daniel 3:27–4:3; Isaiah 49:1; Psalm 147:12–14
- 14 Hebrews 12:29; Isaiah 66:24; Matthew 25:46; Deuteronomy 5:24–25; Matthew 18:8
- 15 Psalm 119:37; 1 John 3:7; Ephesians 5:11–13; Deuteronomy 16:19; Romans 2:7
- 16 Luke 12:29–31; Isaiah 32:18; Proverbs 1:33; Isaiah 49:10; Proverbs 18:10
- 17 Zechariah 9:17; 1 John 3:2; John 14:21; 2 Corinthians 4:18; John 17:24
- 18 1 Corinthians 1:20; Psalm 71:20; Isaiah 17:14; Psalm 31:7–8; 2 Kings 18:31
- 19 Isaiah 28:11; Deuteronomy 28:49–50; Jeremiah 5:15; 2 Kings 19:32; Exodus 14:13
- 20 Psalm 46:5; Isaiah 54:2; Isaiah 32:18; Matthew 16:18; Isaiah 37:33
- 21 Psalm 46:4–5; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 48:18; Isaiah 66:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6
- 22 James 4:12; Acts 5:31; Zephaniah 3:15–17; Psalm 89:18; Isaiah 12:2
- 23 2 Kings 7:8; 1 Corinthians 1:27; Psalm 68:12; Isaiah 33:21; Acts 27:40–41
- 24 Jeremiah 50:20; Revelation 21:4; Exodus 15:26; 1 John 1:7–9; Isaiah 58:8
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