Isaiah 33
1 Alas! thou plunderer when, thou, hadst not been plundered, And thou traitor when they had not betrayed thee: When thou hast ceased plundering, thou shalt be plundered, When thou hast left off betraying, they shall betray thee.
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
2 O Yahweh! shew us favour, —For thee, have we waited, —Be thou their arm every morning, Yea our salvation in the time of distress.
LORD be gracious us to/for you to await to be arm their to/for morning also salvation our in/on/with time distress
3 At the noise of a tumult, the peoples retreated, —When thou didst lift thyself up, nations were scattered.
from voice: sound crowd to wander people from uplifting your to disperse nation
4 Then shall your spoil be gathered as the gathering of the caterpillar, —As the swift running of locusts, is he about to run upon them.
and to gather spoil your gathering [the] locust like/as rushing locust to rush in/on/with him
5 Exalted is Yahweh, for he inhabiteth a height, —He hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
to exalt LORD for to dwell height to fill Zion justice and righteousness
6 So shall a wealth of deliverances, wisdom and knowledge, become the stability of thy times, —the reverence of Yahweh, the same is his treasure.
and to be faithfulness time your wealth salvation wisdom and knowledge fear LORD he/she/it treasure his
7 Lo! their heroes, have cried out openly, —the messengers of peace, in bitterness, continue weeping [they say]:
look! hero their to cry outside [to] messenger peace bitter to weep [emph?]
8 The highways are deserted, The passer-by on the path, hath ceased, —He hath broken covenant, He hath despised cities, He hath made no account of men.
be desolate: destroyed highway to cease to pass way to break covenant to reject city not to devise: count human
9 The land mourneth, languisheth, Lebanon, displayeth shame, is withered, —Sharon, hath become, as the waste plain, And Bashan and Carmel are shaking off their leaves.
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
10 Now, will I arise, Saith Yahweh, Now, will I lift myself up, Now, will I be exalted!
now to arise: rise to say LORD now to exalt now to lift: raise
11 Ye shall conceive chaff Ye shall bring forth stubble, —Your own breath, like fire, shall devour you.
to conceive chaff to beget stubble spirit: breath your fire to eat you
12 So shall peoples, become, as the burnings of lime, —As thorns lopped off, with fire, shall they be burned.
and to be people burning lime thorn to cut in/on/with fire to kindle
13 Hear—ye that are far off. what I have done, And know—ye that are near my might:
to hear: hear distant which to make: do and to know near might my
14 Terror-stricken in Zion, —are sinners, Shuddering hath seized the impious, —Who among us can sojourn with a fire that devoureth? Who among us can sojourn with burnings age-abiding?
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
15 He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly, —He that refuseth the gain of exactions That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,
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
16 He, the heights, shall inhabit, A stronghold of crags, shall be his refuge, —His bread, hath been delivered, His waters, have been made sure,
he/she/it height to dwell stronghold crag high refuge his food: bread his to give: give water his be faithful
17 Of a king, in his beauty, shall thine eyes have vision: They shall see a land that stretcheth afar.
king in/on/with beauty his to see eye your to see: see land: country/planet distance
18 Thy heart, may murmur in terror, —Where is the scribe? Where—the receiver? Where—he that maketh a list of the towers?
heart your to mutter terror where? to recount where? to weigh where? to recount [obj] [the] tower
19 The fierce people, shalt thou not see, —The people of too deep a lip to be understood, of too barbarous a tongue for thee to comprehend.
[obj] people be fierce not to see: see people unfathomable lip: words from to hear: understand to mock tongue nothing understanding
20 Look thou on Zion, the city of our appointed feast, —Thine own eyes, shall see Jerusalem—A home of comfort A tent which shall not be packed up—Whose pins shall not be pulled out, for ever, And none of, whose cords, shall be broken.
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
21 But, there shall Yahweh be our majestic one, A place of rivers—streams broad on both hands, Wherein shall go no galley with oars, Neither shall majestic ship traverse it;
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
22 For, Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh, is our lawgiver, —Yahweh, is our king, He will save us!
for LORD to judge us LORD to decree us LORD king our he/she/it to save us
23 Loosed are thy ropes, —They cannot strengthen the socket of their mast They have not unfurled a sail Now, can be apportioned spoil, in abundance, The lame, have captured prey!
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
24 Neither shall the inhabitant say. I am sick, —the people who dwell therein, have been forgiven iniquity.
and not to say neighboring be weak: ill [the] people [the] to dwell in/on/with her to lift: forgive iniquity: crime
