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Isaiah 33

24 aligned verses; 24 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Woe to you , O destroyer never destroyed , O traitor never betrayed ! When you have finished destroying , you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying , you will be betrayed .
Wo , spoiler! and thou not spoiled , And treacherous ! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish , O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously , They deal treacherously with thee .
O LORD , be gracious to us ! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble .
O Jehovah , favour us , for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity .
The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice ; the nations scatter when You rise .
From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations.
Your spoil, O nations , is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar , As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.
The LORD is exalted , for He dwells on high ; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness .
Set on high is Jehovah , for He is dwelling on high , He filled Zion ` with ' judgment and righteousness ,
He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge . The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge , Fear of Jehovah -- it ` is ' His treasure.
Behold , their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
Lo , ` Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased . The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded .
Desolated have been highways , Ceased hath he who passeth along the path, He hath broken covenant , He hath despised enemies , He hath not esteemed a man .
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves .
Mourned, languished hath the land , Confounded hath been Lebanon , Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.
Now I will arise, says the LORD. Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted .
Now , do I arise, saith Jehovah, Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up .
You conceive chaff ; you give birth to stubble . Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
Ye conceive chaff , ye bear stubble , Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.
The peoples will be burned to ashes , like thorns cut down and set ablaze .
And peoples have been `as' burnings of lime , Thorns , as sweepings, with fire they burn .
You who are far off, hear what I have done ; you who are near, acknowledge My might.
Hear, ye far off, that which I have done , And know, ye near ones , My might.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly : Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire ? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames ?
Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane : Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire , Who doth dwell for us -- burnings of the age ?
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity , who refuses gain from extortion , whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil
Whoso is walking righteously , And is speaking uprightly , Kicking against gain of oppressions , Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil ,
he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured .
He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock `are' his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast .
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.
A king in his beauty , see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off .
Your mind will ponder the former terror : Where is he who tallies ? Where is he who weighs ? Where is he who counts the towers?
Thy heart doth meditate terror , Where ` is ' he who is counting ? Where ` is ' he who is weighing ? Where ` is ' he who is counting the towers?
You will no longer see the insolent , a people whose speech is unintelligible , who stammer in a language you cannot understand .
The strong people thou seest not , A people deeper of lip than to be understood , Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding .
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem , a peaceful pasture , a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up , nor will any of its cords be broken.
See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation , A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever , And none of its cords are broken.
But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals , where no galley with oars will row , and no majestic vessel will pass.
But there mighty `is' Jehovah for us , A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides , No ship with oars doth go into it , And a mighty ship doth not pass over it .
For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King . It is He who will save us.
For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our king -- He doth save us.
Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail . Then an abundance of spoils will be divided , and even the lame will carry off plunder .
Left have been thy ropes , They strengthen not rightly their mast , They have not spread out a sail , Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil , The lame have taken spoil .
And no resident of Zion will say, I am sick .” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity .
Nor doth an inhabitant say, ` I was sick ,' The people that is dwelling in it, is forgiven of iniquity !

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