Isaiah 33

¹Woe to thee that spoylest, and wast not spoyled: and doest wickedly, and they did not wickedly against thee: when thou shalt cease to spoyle, thou shalt be spoyled: when thou shalt make an ende of doing wickedly, they shall doe wickedly against thee.

²O Lord, haue mercie vpon vs, wee haue waited for thee: be thou, which waste their arme in the morning, our helpe also in time of trouble.

³At the noise of the tumult, the people fled: at thine exalting the nations were scattered.

⁴And your spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.

⁵The Lord is exalted: for hee dwelleth on hie: he hath filled Zion with iudgement and iustice.

⁶And there shall be stabilitie of thy times, strength, saluation, wisdome and knowledge: for the feare of the Lord shalbe his treasure.

⁷Behold, their messengers shall cry without, and ye ambassadours of peace shall weepe bitterly.

⁸The pathes are waste: the wayfaring man ceaseth: hee hath broken the couenant: hee hath contemned the cities: he regarded no man.

⁹The earth mourneth and fainteth: Lebanon is ashamed, and hewen downe: Sharon is like a wildernes, and Bashan is shaken and Carmel.

¹⁰Now will I arise, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now will I lift vp my selfe.

¹¹Ye shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you.

¹²And the people shall be as the burning of lime: and as the thornes cut vp, shall they be burnt in the fire.