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Isaiah 33 – 35

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Isaiah 33 – 35 (EHV)
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Rise Up, O Lord!

Isaiah 33

¹ Woe to you who destroy, even though you have not been destroyed,

you who betray, though you have not been betrayed!
When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed,
and when you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

² O Lord, be gracious to us. We wait hopefully for you.
Be our strength every morning.
Be our salvation in times of trouble.
³ At the thunder of your voice, people flee.
When you stir up your great power, nations scatter.
⁴ Your plunder will be taken away
the way a caterpillar ^[1] eats things up.
People will swarm on it like a locust swarm.
⁵ The Lord is exalted, because he dwells on high.
He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
⁶ There will be stability in your time,
a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
Your treasure will be the fear of the Lord.
⁷ Listen! Their elite troops ^[2] are crying in the streets.
The peace envoys weep bitterly.
⁸ The highways are deserted.
All travel has stopped.
The treaty has been broken.
Witnesses ^[3] are despised,
and no one is respected.
⁹ The land mourns and becomes weak.
Lebanon is ashamed and withers away.
The Plain of Sharon is like the Arabah,
and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

¹⁰ Now I will arise, says the Lord.
Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
¹¹ You will conceive chaff
and give birth to stubble.
Like fire, your own breath will consume you.
¹² People will be burned to lime, ^[4]
like thorns that are cut and burned in the fire.
¹³ You who are far away, recognize what I have done.
You who are close by, acknowledge my mighty acts.

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid.
Trembling has seized the ungodly.
Who of us can live with a consuming fire?
Who of us can live in a place that burns without end?
¹⁵ Those who walk righteously and speak blamelessly,
those who despise dishonest gain,
whose hands refuse a bribe,
whose ears will not listen to violent plans,
whose eyes reject evil—
¹⁶ they will dwell on high.
Their defense will be a fortress on the cliffs.
Their bread will be provided.
Their water supply will be reliable.

¹⁷ Your eyes will see the King ^[5] in his splendor.
They will see a land that stretches far and wide.
¹⁸ Your heart will think about the past terrors.
You will think, “Where is the one who took the inventory? ^[6]
Where is the one who weighed the silver?
Where is the one who counted the towers?”
¹⁹ You will no longer see a barbaric people,
a people with unintelligible speech, which you cannot understand,
a people who babble in a language that makes no sense.
²⁰ Look at Zion, the city where we hold our festivals.
You will see Jerusalem as a peaceful place,
as a tent that cannot be removed.
Its stakes will never be pulled up.
Its ropes will never be broken.
²¹ There the Lord will be with us in majesty,
as in a place with wide rivers and streams,
where no enemy warship can row,
where no sailing ship can slip past.
²² Because the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
and the Lord is our king,
he is the one who will save us.

²³ Your rigging hangs loose.
The mast is not steady.
The sail is not set. ^[7]

When they divide all the plunder,
there will be so much that even the crippled will take part.
²⁴ No one who lives there will say, “I am sick.”
The guilt of the people who live there will be forgiven.

Judgment Against the Nations

Isaiah 34

¹ Come near, you nations, and hear!

Listen, you peoples.
Let the earth and everything in it hear,
the world and everything that it produces.

² The Lord is angry with all the nations,
and he is furious with all their armies.
He has condemned them to destruction.
He has handed them over for slaughter.
³ Their fallen bodies will lie unburied,
and the stench of their corpses will linger.
The mountains will flow with their blood.
⁴ The whole army of the heavens will fall apart.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and its whole army will waste away and fall,
like leaves withering on a vine,
like fruit that falls from a fig tree.

⁵ Yes, my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens.
Now it will fall on Edom,
on the people I have sentenced to judgment.
⁶ The sword of the Lord is covered with blood.
It is coated with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat from the kidneys of rams,
for the Lord has made a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a massive slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷ Wild oxen will fall along with them,
bull calves and powerful bulls.
Their land will be soaked with blood,
and their dust will be saturated with fat.
⁸ It will be a day of vengeance for the Lord,
a year of retribution for Zion’s sake. ^[8]
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into sulfur,
and its land will become burning pitch,
¹⁰ which will not be extinguished night or day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
Generation after generation, it will lie in ruins.
No one will ever pass through it. Never again!
¹¹ But the desert owl and the porcupine will live there. ^[9]
The screech owl and the raven will nest there.
God will stretch a measuring line for chaos over Edom,
and a plumb line for uninhabited ruins. ^[10]
12 There will be nothing left for its nobles to call a kingdom.
All its officials will be gone.
¹³ Thorns will cover its citadels.
Thistles and briers will overgrow its fortresses.
It will be a den of jackals,
a haunt for ostriches.
¹⁴ Desert animals and hyenas will gather,
and wild goats ^[11] will bleat to each other.
Creatures of the night ^[12] will settle there
and find a resting place.
¹⁵ An owl ^[13] will nest there.
She will lay eggs, hatch them,
and gather her young under her shade.
Falcons will gather there too,
each with its mate.

¹⁶ Search through the book of the Lord, and read.
Not one of them will be missing.
Not one will lack her mate.
For his mouth has commanded this,
and his Spirit has gathered them together.
¹⁷ He has allotted this land for these creatures.
His hand has divided it up for them with a surveying line.
They will possess it forever.
They will live there generation after generation.

The Joyful Return

Isaiah 35

¹ The wilderness and the desert will be glad.

The wasteland of the Arabah will rejoice and blossom like a crocus.
² It will bloom lavishly,
and there will be great joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it.
It will be excellent like Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the Lord,
the majesty of our God.

³ Strengthen the weak hands,
and make the shaky knees steady.
⁴ Tell those who have a fearful heart:
Be strong.
Do not be afraid.
Look! Your God will come with vengeance.
With God’s own retribution, he will come and save you.

⁵ Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf will be unplugged.
⁶ The crippled will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy.
Waters will flow in the wilderness,
and streams in the wasteland.
⁷ The burning sand will become a pool,
and in the thirsty ground there will be springs of water.
There will be grass, reeds, and rushes where the haunts
of jackals once lay.
⁸ A highway will be there,
a road that will be called the holy way.
The impure will not walk there.
It will be reserved for those who walk in that holy way.
Wicked fools will not wander onto it.
⁹ No lion will be there,
nor will any ferocious animal go up on it.
They will not be found there,
but only the redeemed will walk there.
¹⁰ Then those ransomed by the Lord will return.
They will enter Zion with a joyful shout,
and everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Happiness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 33:4 The term refers to a life stage or a type of locust.
2. Isaiah 33:7 Or the people of Ariel
3. Isaiah 33:8 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. The standard Hebrew text reads cities.
4. Isaiah 33:12 Or to ashes
5. Isaiah 33:17 Or the king
6. Isaiah 33:18 The verse apparently refers to the actions of the enemy officers as they plundered Jerusalem.
7. Isaiah 33:23 Or Your ropes are loose. Their flagpole is not firmly set, and the flag will not fly. But see verse 21.
8. Isaiah 34:8 Or a time of retribution for the Defender of Zion
9. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these animals and other animals in this section is uncertain. The word translated porcupine may be another type of owl.
10. Isaiah 34:11 The words translated chaos and uninhabited ruins are the same words that describe the undeveloped, empty world on the first day of creation.
11. Isaiah 34:14 The term translated wild goats later became associated with satyrs and demons, but here it seems to refer to regular animals.
12. Isaiah 34:14 Hebrew lilith. In later Jewish writing this term became the name of a female demon.
13. Isaiah 34:15 Or the arrow snake. The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain.

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

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