Isa 31:2 Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity.

Isa 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So the Lord will stretch out His hand, And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.

Isa 31:4 For thus says the Lord to me, "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise, So will the Lord of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."

Isa 31:5 Like flying birds so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.

Isa 31:6 Return to Him from whom you have deeply defected, O sons of Israel.

Isa 31:7 For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin.

Isa 31:8 And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man, And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will not escape the sword, And his young men will become forced laborers.

Isa 31:9 "His rock will pass away because of panic, And his princes will be terrified at the standard," Declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

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Isa 32:1 Behold, a king will reign righteously And princes will rule justly.

Isa 32:2 Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

Isa 32:3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, And the ears of those who hear will listen.

Isa 32:4 The mind of the hasty will discern the truth, And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.

Isa 32:5 No longer will the fool be called noble, Or the rogue be spoken of as generous.

Isa 32:6 For a fool speaks nonsense, And his heart inclines toward wickedness: To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord, To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

Isa 32:7 As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander, Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

Isa 32:8 But the noble man devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands.

Isa 32:9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, And hear my voice; Give ear to my word, You complacent daughters.

Isa 32:10 Within a year and a few days You will be troubled, O complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended, And the fruit gathering will not come.

Isa 32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

Isa 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

Isa 32:13 For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

Isa 32:14 Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;

Isa 32:15 Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fertile field, And the fertile field is considered as a forest.

Isa 32:16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness And righteousness will abide in the fertile field.

Isa 32:17 And the work of righteousness will be peace, And the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Isa 32:18 Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation, And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;

Isa 32:19 And it will hail when the forest comes down, And the city will be utterly laid low.

Isa 32:20 How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters, Who let out freely the ox and the donkey.

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Isa 33:1 Woe to you, O destroyer, While you were not destroyed; And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him. As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.

Isa 33:2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for You. Be their strength every morning, Our salvation also in the time of distress.

Isa 33:3 At the sound of the tumult peoples flee; At the lifting up of Yourself nations disperse.

Isa 33:4 Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

Isa 33:5 The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Isa 33:6 And He will be the stability of your times, A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; The fear of the Lord is his treasure.

Isa 33:7 Behold, their brave men cry in the streets, The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

Isa 33:8 The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, He has no regard for man.

Isa 33:9 The land mourns and pines away, Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a desert plain, And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage.

Isa 33:10 "Now I will arise," says the Lord, "Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.

Isa 33:11 "You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.

Isa 33:12 "The peoples will be burned to lime, Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

Isa 33:13 "You who are far away, hear what I have done; And you who are near, acknowledge My might."

Isa 33:14 Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. "Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?"

Isa 33:15 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

Isa 33:16 He will dwell on the heights, His refuge will be the impregnable rock; His bread will be given him, His water will be sure.

Isa 33:17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will behold a far-distant land.

Isa 33:18 Your heart will meditate on terror: "Where is he who counts? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?"

Isa 33:19 You will no longer see a fierce people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one understands.

Isa 33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed habitation, A tent which will not be folded; Its stakes will never be pulled up, Nor any of its cords be torn apart.

Isa 33:21 But there the majestic One, the Lord, will be for us A place of rivers and wide canals On which no boat with oars will go, And on which no mighty ship will pass"

Isa 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, The Lord is our lawgiver, The Lord is our king; He will save us"

Isa 33:23 Your tackle hangs slack; It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly, Nor spread out the sail. Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be divided; The lame will take the plunder.

Isa 33:24 And no resident will say, "I am sick"; The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

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Isa 34:1 Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples! Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

Isa 34:2 For the Lord's indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter.

Isa 34:3 So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

Isa 34:4 And all the host of heaven will wear away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree.

Isa 34:5 For My sword is satiated in heaven, Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

Isa 34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, It is sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isa 34:7 Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.

Isa 34:8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isa 34:9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.

Isa 34:10 It will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it forever and ever.

Isa 34:11 But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness.

Isa 34:12 Its nobles--there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king-- And all its princes will be nothing.

Isa 34:13 Thorns will come up in its fortified towers, Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities; It will also be a haunt of jackals And an abode of ostriches.

Isa 34:14 The desert creatures will meet with the wolves, The hairy goat also will cry to its kind; Yes, the night monster will settle there And will find herself a resting place.

Isa 34:15 The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there, And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. Yes, the hawks will be gathered there, Every one with its kind.

Isa 34:16 Seek from the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these will be missing; None will lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded, And His Spirit has gathered them.

Isa 34:17 He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it to them by line. They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation they will dwell in it.