032:017 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect
of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
032:018 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings,
and in quiet resting places.
032:019 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.
032:020 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet
of the ox and the donkey.
033:001 Woe 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 made an end of betrayal,
you will be betrayed.
033:002 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the
time of trouble.
033:003 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
033:004 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.
Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
033:005 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion
with justice and righteousness.
033:006 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation,
wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
033:007 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors
of peace weep bitterly.
033:008 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases.
The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities.
He doesn't regard man.
033:009 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and
withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel
are stripped bare.
033:010 "Now I will arise," says Yahweh; "Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
033:011 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble.
Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
033:012 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns
that are cut down and burned in the fire.
033:013 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near,
acknowledge my might."
033:014 The 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?
033:015 He 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 blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
033:016 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be
the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied.
His waters will be sure.
033:017 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see
a distant land.
033:018 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted?
Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
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