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UST ISA Chapter 33

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33 How terrible it will be for the nation that has destroyed others,

which has broken its agreements with others!

No one has destroyed it yet,

but when it stops destroying others,

others will destroy it.

No one has broken an agreement with it yet,

but when it stops breaking its agreements with others,

others will break their agreements with it.

2 Yahweh, we are waiting for you to help us,

so please be kind to us,

Strengthen us each day,

and rescue us when we suffer distress.

3 When our enemies hear the loud noise of you approaching, they run away.

When you show how powerful you are, they scatter.

4 Then we will swarm like locusts over their valuable possessions

and take them all away, just as caterpillars eat all the leaves off plants.

5 Yahweh, who lives in heaven, is greater than anyone else.

He will lead the people who live in Jerusalem on Mount Zion

to do what is fair and right.

6 He will make them secure for as long as they live.

He will rescue them powerfully,

and he will enable them to know and understand important things.

These things will happen for the people

because they greatly revere Yahweh.

7 But now brave warriors are crying out loud in the streets.

The ambassadors whom the Judeans sent to make peace

are weeping very sadly because they did not succeed.

8 People do not travel on the roads anymore.

The Assyrian king has broken the peace treaty he made,

even though he made it in the presence of witnesses.

He does not care what people think of him.

9 People are not working in the fields, so they are not producing crops.

No one is harvesting the trees in the great forests of Lebanon,

so they are becoming wild again.

The fertile plain of Sharon has become like a desert.

Crops are not growing in the agricultural areas of Bashan and Carmel;

it is as if the leaves have dropped off the plants there.

10 Yahweh says, “Now I am going to take action.

Now I will show how very powerful I am.

11 The enemy nations will not succeed in conquering Judah.

Their own hostility will destroy them, as if a fire had burned them up.

12 It will be as if a fire burns those nations completely to ashes.

They will be like thornbushes that people cut down and burn up.

13 People throughout the world should listen to what I am going to do

and recognize how powerful I am.”

14 Sinful people in Jerusalem are afraid;

godless people tremble uncontrollably with fear.

They say, “None of us will survive in the presence of Yahweh!

He is about to destroy wicked people as if he were a fire that was burning them up continually!”

15-16 15-16These are the people who will be safe,

as if they were on the top of a cliff:

people who do what is right

and speak honestly;

people who do not try to get rich by extorting others

and who refuse to accept bribes;

people who refuse to consider doing evil

such as by attacking others violently.

God will always make sure that such people

have the food and drink that they need.

17 You people of Judah will see your king reigning splendidly.

You will see that his kingdom is very large.

18 You will think about when the enemy terrified you and you will say,

“The Assyrian officers who gathered their soldiers are gone! The Assyrian officials who collected tribute from us are gone!

The Assyrian officers who built siege towers against us are gone!”

19 You will no longer see those proud people

who spoke a language that you could not understand.

20 Instead, when you look at Mount Zion,

you will see that the city of Jerusalem,

where we celebrate our annual festivals,

has become a safe place to live.

No one will ever be able to destroy it so that it is not there anymore.

21 That is because Yahweh will be our mighty protector there.

He will protect Jerusalem the way a wide river protects a city,

and it will be as if no enemy warships

are able to approach the city on that river.

22 It will be that way because Yahweh judges us.

Yahweh gives us our laws.

Yahweh rules us as our king.

He is the one who will save us.

23 It is as if our enemies are trying to attack us on ships whose ropes hang loose

so that the masts do not stay securely in place

and the sailors can not spread the sail.

We will take many valuable possessions from our enemies

and divide them among ourselves.

Even people who can not fight as soldiers will be able to take valuable possessions.

24 Yahweh will forgive the sins that the people who live in Jerusalem have committed.

As a result, those people will no longer say that they are suffering.