vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. [1] 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip ye, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12 They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. [2] 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: [3] 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; [4] 15 Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; 19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. [5] 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth there the feet of the ox and the donkey.
CHAP. 33.
Woe to thee that layest waste, and thou wast not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; and when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2 O LORD, be gracious to 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. [6]
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry outside: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. [7]
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 . [8]
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 Ye that are far off, hear 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 keepeth his hands from accepting of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; [9] [10] [11] [12]
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the strong holds of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. [13]
17 Thy eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. [14]
18 Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers? [15]
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand. [16]
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.
21 But there the glorious LORD will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it. [17]
22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. [18]
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. [19]
24 And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.
CHAP. 34.
- ↑ Many...: Heb. Days above a year
- ↑ pleasant...: Heb. fields of desire
- ↑ yea...: or, burning upon
- ↑ forts...: or, clifts and watchtowers
- ↑ low in...: or, utterly abased
- ↑ salvation: Heb. salvations
- ↑ valiant...: or, messengers
- ↑ hewn...: or, withered away
- ↑ righteously: Heb. in righteousnesses
- ↑ uprightly: Heb. uprightnesses
- ↑ oppressions: or, deceits
- ↑ blood: Heb. bloods
- ↑ high: Heb. heights, or, high places
- ↑ that...: Heb. of far distances
- ↑ receiver: Heb. weigher?
- ↑ stammering: or, ridiculous
- ↑ of...: Heb. broad of spaces, or, hands
- ↑ lawgiver: Heb. statutemaker
- ↑ Thy...: or, They have forsaken thy tacklings
