Isaiah 33 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Woe to thee that spoylest, and wast not spoyled: and doest wickedly, and they did not wickedly against thee: when thou shalt cease to spoyle, thou shalt be spoyled: when thou shalt make an ende of doing wickedly, they shall doe wickedly against thee.
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, haue mercie vpon vs, wee haue waited for thee: be thou, which waste their arme in the morning, our helpe also in time of trouble.
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 At the noise of the tumult, the people fled: at thine exalting 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 spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.
4 Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
5 The Lord is exalted: for hee dwelleth on hie: he hath filled Zion with iudgement and iustice.
5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 And there shall be stabilitie of thy times, strength, saluation, wisdome and knowledge: for the feare of the Lord shalbe 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, their messengers shall cry without, and ye ambassadours of peace shall weepe bitterly.
7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
8 The pathes are waste: the wayfaring man ceaseth: hee hath broken the couenant: hee hath contemned the cities: he regarded no man.
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 mourneth and fainteth: Lebanon is ashamed, and hewen downe: Sharon is like a wildernes, and Bashan is shaken and Carmel.
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 will I arise, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now will I lift vp my selfe.
10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
11 Ye shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you.
11 You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
12 And the people shall be as the burning of lime: and as the thornes cut vp, shall they be burnt in the fire.
12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
13 Heare, yee that are farre off, what I haue done, and ye that are neere, know my power.
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 afraide: a feare is come vpon the hypocrites: who among vs shall dwel with the deuouring fire? who among vs shall dwell with the euerlasting burnings?
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 Hee that walketh in iustice, and speaketh righteous things, refusing gaine of oppression, shaking his handes from taking of gifts, stopping his eares from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing euill.
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 He shall dwell on hie: his defence shall be the munitions of rockes: bread shalbe giuen him, and his waters shalbe sure.
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 Thine eyes shall see the King in his glory: they shall beholde the lande farre off.
17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
18 Thine heart shall meditate feare, Where is the scribe? where is the receiuer? where is hee that counted the towres?
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 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a darke speache, that thou canst not perceiue, and of a stammering tongue that thou canst not vnderstande.
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 Looke vpon Zion the citie of our solemne feastes: thine eyes shall see Ierusalem a quiet habitation, a Tabernacle that can not be remooued: and the stakes thereof can neuer be taken away, neither shall any of the cordes thereof 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 surely there the mightie Lord will be vnto vs, as a place of floods and broade riuers, whereby shall passe no shippe with oares, neither shall great shippe passe thereby.
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 Iudge, the Lord is our lawe giuer: the Lord is our King, he will saue vs.
22 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
23 Thy cordes are loosed: they could not well strengthen their maste, neither coulde they spread the saile: then shall the praye be deuided for a great spoile: yea, the lame shall take away the pray.
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 And none inhabitant shall say, I am sicke: the people that dwell therein, shall haue their iniquitie forgiuen.
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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