Isaiah 33 | BSB Bible Study

Isaiah 33:1 (BSB)
Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 33:2 (BSB)
O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.

Isaiah 33:3 (BSB)
The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

Isaiah 33:4 (BSB)
Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

Isaiah 33:5 (BSB)
The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Isaiah 33:6 (BSB)
He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.

Isaiah 33:7 (BSB)
Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

Isaiah 33:8 (BSB)
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

Isaiah 33:9 (BSB)
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 33:10 (BSB)
“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.

Isaiah 33:11 (BSB)
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Isaiah 33:12 (BSB)
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

Isaiah 33:13 (BSB)
You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

Isaiah 33:14 (BSB)
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

Isaiah 33:15 (BSB)
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

Isaiah 33:16 (BSB)
he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

Isaiah 33:17 (BSB)
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.

Isaiah 33:18 (BSB)
Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

Isaiah 33:19 (BSB)
You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

Isaiah 33:20 (BSB)
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

Isaiah 33:21 (BSB)
But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

Isaiah 33:22 (BSB)
For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

Isaiah 33:23 (BSB)
Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

Isaiah 33:24 (BSB)
And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

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