Isaías 33— comparação

1Ai de você que destrói, mas não foi destruído,

2SENHOR, seja gracioso conosco. Temos esperado em ti.

3Ao som do trovão, os povos fogem.

4O seu despojo será ajuntado como a lagarta o ajunta.

5O SENHOR é exaltado, pois habita nas alturas.

6Haverá estabilidade nos seus tempos, abundância de salvação, sabedoria e conhecimento.

7Eis que os seus valentes clamam do lado de fora;

8As estradas estão desertas.

9A terra pranteia e definha.

10“Agora eu me levantarei”, diz o SENHOR.

11Vocês conceberão palha.

12Os povos serão como a queima de cal,

13Ouçam, vocês que estão longe, o que eu fiz;

14Os pecadores em Sião estão com medo.

15Aquele que anda em retidão

16este habitará nas alturas.

17Os seus olhos verão o rei em sua formosura.

18O seu coração meditará sobre o terror.

19Você não verá mais aquele povo feroz,

20Olhe para Sião, a cidade das nossas festas solenes.

21Mas ali o SENHOR estará conosco em majestade,

22Pois o SENHOR é o nosso juiz.

23O seu cordame está solto.

24O habitante não dirá: “Estou doente.”

1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

2Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

3At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

5Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

8The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

9The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

11You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

12The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

14The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

15He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.

18Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

19You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.

20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

21But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.

22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

23Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.

24The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.