Isaiah 33:7-9

Contemporary English Version

The Lord Will Do Something

⁷Listen! Our bravest soldiers
are running through the streets,
    screaming for help.^[a]
Our messengers hoped for peace,
    but came home crying.
⁸No one travels anymore;
    every road is empty.
Treaties are broken,
and no respect is shown
    to any who keep promises.^[b]
⁹Fields are dry and barren;
Mount Lebanon wilts
    with shame.
Sharon Valley is a desert;
the forests of Bashan and Carmel
    have lost their leaves.

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Footnotes

33.7 Listen … help: Or “The Lord heard our shouts and will come to help us.”
33.8 to any … promises: The Dead Sea Scrolls; the Standard Hebrew Text “to those in the cities.”