19 And it shall hail at the downfall of the forest; and the city shall lie low in lowliness.

20 Happy are ye, that sow beside all waters; that send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.

XXXIII. 1 Ah, thou that spoilest, and thyself art not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they have not dealt treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt have succeeded in dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited fOr thee; be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

3 At the voice of the uproar the’peoples ﬂee; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.

4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts run to and fro, shall they run upon it.

15. ‘poured out’: lit. emptied, cf. liii. 12; ‘garden-land,’ Heb. Carmel.16. ‘rest,’ or, ‘abide in.’17. ‘effect’: lit. labour, service.19. ‘low in lowliness’: i.e. ‘utterly low‘ in humiliation: or. ‘low in a low place.’20. Or. upon all waters.’1. ‘succeeded’: or, ‘ﬁnished’: some propose to get this meaning by reading verb with ABBREV for ABBREV.4. ‘caterpillar’: lit. ‘consumer,’ ‘devourer’: prob. a name for a locust in some form (cf. Joel i. 4). ‘shall they...’ verb is singular, with indeﬁnite subj.

5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwelleth in the height; he hath ﬁlled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

6 And there shall be faithfulness in thy times; power of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord, that is his treasure. ’

7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the mesSengers of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man is ceased; he hath broken the covenant, despised cities, not man.

9 The earth mourneth, languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, withereth; Sharon becometh like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off (their leaves).

10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I exalt myself; now will I lift up myself.

11 Ye shall conceive hay, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is ﬁre which shall devour you.

12 And peoples shall become burnings of lime; thorns cut up, they shall burn in the ﬁre.

13 Hear, ye that are far, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

14 The sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling hath seized the impious. Who among us can sojourn with deVOuring ﬁre? who among us can sojourn with everlasting burnings?

15 He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh upright- ness; that rejecteth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold on a bribe, that stoppeth his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and closeth his eyes from seeing evil:

5. ‘exalted’: or, ‘secure’ (which sense at any rate underlies the word).7. ‘their valiant ’: doubtful. and the vowel-points must be altered to give this sense. Heb. text. as printed, suggests some form of a verb. Some render ‘the ’: i.e. ‘lions of ’ cf. xxix. 115. ‘bloodshed,’ lit. ‘bloods.

16 He shall inhabit heights, fortresses of rocks (are) his high place; his bread is given him, his water is sure.

17 Thine eyes shall see a king in his beauty; they shall behold a land of distances.

18 Thine heart shall meditate on terror. Where is he that counted? Where he that weighed? where he that counted the towers?