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# Isaiah 33

Isaiah 33 is chapter 33 of 66 in the Book of Isaiah. Here are all 24 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> God's revenge against the enemies of his church. The happiness of the heavenly Jerusalem.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Isaiah 33 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Woe to you who plunder! Will you yourselves not also be plundered? And woe to you who despise! Will you yourselves not also be despised? When you will have completed your plundering, you will be plundered. When, out of fatigue, you will have ceased acting with contempt, you will be treated with contempt.
2. O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.
3. From the voice of the Angel, the people fled. And from your exultation, the nations were scattered.
4. And your spoils will be gathered together, just as the locusts are collected when the ditches have become filled with them.
5. The Lord has been magnified, because he has lived on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.
6. And there will be faith in your times: the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
7. Behold, outside, those who see will cry out. The Angels of peace will weep bitterly.
8. The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.
9. The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together.
10. “Now, I will rise up!” says the Lord. “Now I will be exalted! Now I will lift myself up!”
11. You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.
12. And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.
13. “You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!”
14. The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?
15. The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.
16. Such a one will live on high; the fortification of rocks will be his lofty place. Bread has been given to him; his waters are reliable.
17. His eyes will see the king in his elegance; they will discern the land from far away.
18. Your heart will meditate on fear. Where are the learned? Where are those who ponder the words of the law? Where are the teachers of little ones?
19. You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom.
20. Look with favor upon Zion, the city of our solemnity. Your eyes will behold Jerusalem: an opulent habitation, a tabernacle that can never be taken away. Its stakes will not be taken away forever, nor will any of its cords be broken.
21. For only in that place has our Lord been magnified. It is a place of rivers, very broad and open. No ship with oars will cross through it, nor will the great Greek ship pass through it.
22. For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He himself will save us.
23. Your ropes have become loose, and they will not prevail. Your mast will be such that you will not be able to unfurl a flag. Then the spoils of much plunder will be divided. The lame will seize the spoils.
24. He who is nearby will not say: “I am too weak.” The people who live in it will have their iniquity taken away from them.

## Isaiah 33 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Væ qui prædaris! nonne et ipse prædaberis? et qui spernis, nonne et ipse sperneris? Cum consummaveris deprædationem, deprædaberis; cum fatigatus desieris contemnere, contemneris.
2. Domine, miserere nostri, te enim exspectavimus; esto brachium nostrum in mane, et salus nostra in tempore tribulationis.
3. A voce angeli fugerunt populi, et ab exaltatione tua dispersæ sunt gentes.
4. Et congregabuntur spolia vestra sicut colligitur bruchus, velut cum fossæ plenæ fuerint de eo.
5. Magnificatus est Dominus, quoniam habitavit in excelso; implevit Sion judicio et justitia.
6. Et erit fides in temporibus tuis: divitiæ salutis sapientia et scientia; timor Domini ipse est thesaurus ejus.
7. Ecce videntes clamabunt foris; angeli pacis amare flebunt.
8. Dissipatæ sunt viæ, cessavit transiens per semitam: irritum factum est pactum, projecit civitates, non reputavit homines.
9. Luxit et elanguit terra; confusus est Libanus, et obsorduit: et factus est Saron sicut desertum, et concussa est Basan, et Carmelus.
10. Nunc consurgam, dicit Dominus; nunc exaltabor, nunc sublevabor.
11. Concipietis ardorem, parietis stipulam; spiritus vester ut ignis vorabit vos.
12. Et erunt populi quasi de incendio cinis; spinæ congregatæ igni comburentur.
13. Audite, qui longe estis, quæ fecerim; et cognoscite, vicini, fortitudinem meam.
14. Conterriti sunt in Sion peccatores; possedit tremor hypocritas. Quis poterit habitare de vobis cum igne devorante? quis habitabit ex vobis cum ardoribus sempiternis?
15. Qui ambulat in justitiis et loquitur veritatem, qui projicit avaritiam ex calumnia, et excutit manus suas ab omni munere, qui obturat aures suas ne audiat sanguinem, et claudit oculos suos ne videat malum.
16. Iste in excelsis habitabit; munimenta saxorum sublimitas ejus: panis ei datus est, aquæ ejus fideles sunt.
17. Regem in decore suo videbunt oculi ejus, cernent terram de longe.
18. Cor tuum meditabitur timorem: ubi est litteratus? ubi legis verba ponderans? ubi doctor parvulorum?
19. Populum impudentem non videbis, populum alti sermonis, ita ut non possis intelligere disertitudinem linguæ ejus, in quo nulla est sapientia.
20. Respice, Sion, civitatem solemnitatis nostræ: oculi tui videbunt Jerusalem, habitationem opulentam, tabernaculum quod nequaquam transferri poterit; nec auferentur clavi ejus in sempiternum, et omnes funiculi ejus non rumpentur:
21. quia solummodo ibi magnificus est Dominus noster: locus fluviorum rivi latissimi et patentes: non transibit per eum navis remigum, neque trieris magna transgredietur eum.
22. Dominus enim judex noster, Dominus legifer noster, Dominus rex noster, ipse salvabit nos.
23. Laxati sunt funiculi tui, et non prævalebunt; sic erit malus tuus ut dilatare signum non queas. Tunc dividentur spolia prædarum multarum; claudi diripient rapinam.
24. Nec dicet vicinus: Elangui; populus qui habitat in ea, auferetur ab eo iniquitas.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1502: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: This is particularly directed to Sennacherib.
- Verse 7: “The angels of peace” … The messengers or deputies sent to negotiate a peace.
- Verse 21: “Of rivers” … He speaks of the rivers of endless joys that flow from the throne of God to water the heavenly Jerusalem, where no enemy's ship can come, etc.
- Verse 23: He speaks of the enemies of the church, under the allegory of a ship that is disabled.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Dec 5, 2026: Saturday of the First Week of Advent — Alleluia, Isaiah 33:22
- Sat, Dec 4, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the First Week of Advent — Alleluia, Isaiah 33:22
- Sat, Dec 9, 2028 (computed): Saturday of the First Week of Advent — Alleluia, Isaiah 33:22

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).