Isaiah 33

1 woe! to ruin and you(m. s.) not to ruin and to act treacherously and not to act treacherously in/on/with him like/as to finish you to ruin to ruin like/as to cease you to/for to act treacherously to act treacherously in/on/with you

Tragedy is coming to you, you destroyer who has not experienced destruction yourself, you deceiver who has not experienced deception yourself! When you have finished with your destroying, you will be destroyed yourself. Then you are finished with your deceiving, you will be deceived yourselves.

2 LORD be gracious us to/for you to await to be arm their to/for morning also salvation our in/on/with time distress

Lord, please be kind to us; we put our confidence in you. Be the strength we rely on every morning; be our salvation in times of trouble.

3 from voice: sound crowd to wander people from uplifting your to disperse nation

When you roar, the peoples run away; when you prepare for action, the nations scatter!

4 and to gather spoil your gathering [the] locust like/as rushing locust to rush in/on/with him

You plunder defeated enemy armies like caterpillars eating up plants; like an attack of swarming locusts.

5 to exalt LORD for to dwell height to fill Zion justice and righteousness

The Lord is praised for he lives in highest heaven; he has filled Zion with justice and right.

6 and to be faithfulness time your wealth salvation wisdom and knowledge fear LORD he/she/it treasure his

He will be your constant support throughout your lives an abundant source of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. Reverence for the Lord is what makes Zion rich.

7 look! hero their to cry outside [to] messenger peace bitter to weep [emph?]

But look! Even your bravest soldiers are crying loudly in the street; the messengers you sent to ask for peace are weeping bitterly.

8 be desolate: destroyed highway to cease to pass way to break covenant to reject city not to devise: count human

Your highways are deserted; nobody's traveling on your roads anymore. He breaks the treaty; he despises the witnesses; he doesn't care about anybody.

9 to mourn to weaken land: country/planet be ashamed Lebanon to decay to be [the] Sharon like/as Arabah and to shake Bashan and Carmel

Israel is in mourning and fades away; Lebanon withers in shame; the fields of Sharon have become a desert; the forests of Bashan and Carmel have shed their leaves.

10 now to arise: rise to say LORD now to exalt now to lift: raise

“But now I'm going to intervene!” says the Lord. “I'm prepared to act! I will show myself to be above all others!

11 to conceive chaff to beget stubble spirit: breath your fire to eat you

All you give birth to is only dry grass, all you deliver is just stubble. Your breath is a fire that will burn you up.

12 and to be people burning lime thorn to cut in/on/with fire to kindle

You people will be burned to ashes like thorns that are cut down and thrown into the fire.

13 to hear: hear distant which to make: do and to know near might my

Those of you who are far away, recognize what I have accomplished; those of you who are nearby, recognize how powerful I am.”

14 to dread in/on/with Zion sinner to grasp trembling profane who? to sojourn to/for us fire to eat who? to sojourn to/for us burning forever: enduring

The sinners who live in Zion tremble with fear; those who are irreligious are overcome with terror. They ask, “Who can live with this fire that consumes everything? Who can live among such everlasting burning?”

15 to go: walk righteousness and to speak: speak uprightness to reject in/on/with unjust-gain oppression to shake palm his from to grasp in/on/with bribe to shutter ear his from to hear: hear blood and to shut eyes eye his from to see: see in/on/with bad: evil

Those who live right and speak the truth, those who refuse to profit from extortion and refuse to take bribes, who don't listen to plots to kill people, who close their eyes rather than look at evil.

16 he/she/it height to dwell stronghold crag high refuge his food: bread his to give: give water his be faithful

They will live on high; they will be protected by the mountain fortresses; they will always be provided with food and will always have water.

17 king in/on/with beauty his to see eye your to see: see land: country/planet distance

You will see the king in his wonderful appearance, and you will view a land that stretches into the distance.

18 heart your to mutter terror where? to recount where? to weigh where? to recount [obj] [the] tower

In your mind you will think about the terrifying things that were expected, and then ask yourself, “Where are the enemy officials—the scribes who were to record events, the treasurers who were to weigh the looted money, the surveyors who were to count and destroy the towers?”

19 [obj] people be fierce not to see: see people unfathomable lip: words from to hear: understand to mock tongue nothing understanding

You won't see these offensive people anymore with their barbaric language that sounds like someone stammering and is impossible to understand.

20 to see Zion town meeting: festival our eye your to see: see Jerusalem pasture secure tent not to move not to set out peg his to/for perpetuity and all cord his not to tear

On the contrary, you'll see Zion as a festival city. You will view Jerusalem as a quiet and peaceful place. It will be like a tent that's never taken down, whose tent-pegs are never pulled up, whose guy ropes never snap.

21 that if: except if: except there great LORD to/for us place river stream broad: wide hand: spacious not to go: went in/on/with him fleet oar and ship great not to pass him

Right here our majestic Lord will be like a place of broad rivers and waters that no enemy ship with oars can cross—no great ship can pass.

22 for LORD to judge us LORD to decree us LORD king our he/she/it to save us

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king. He is the one who will save us.

23 to leave cord your not to strengthen: hold stand mast their not to spread ensign then to divide prey spoil abundance lame to plunder plunder

The rigging on your ship hangs loose so the mast isn't secure and the sail can't be spread. Then all the looted treasure you're carrying will be divided among the victors—even those who are lame will have their share.

24 and not to say neighboring be weak: ill [the] people [the] to dwell in/on/with her to lift: forgive iniquity: crime

Nobody in Israel will say, “I'm sick,” and those who live there will have their guilt removed.