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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 33:22

Is judge — To plead our cause against our enemies. Lawgiver — Our chief governor, to whom it belongs, to give laws, and to defend his people.

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See also Isaiah 33:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE LORD IS OUR JUDGE - Yahweh will be to us nothing but a source of happiness, truth, and prosperity. His presence will be to us only a blessing, and a means of success and joy. The repetition of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 33 Sixth Woe Against the Assyrian and What Is to Follow 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 33:1)_ 2. _The prayer of the faithful remnant (Isaiah 33:2)_ 3. _The judgment executed (Isaiah 33:7)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 33. DENUNCIATION OF THE TREACHEROUS FOE. ZION'S EXTREMITY, YAHWEH'S OPPORTUNITY. If Isaiah's, the date is apparently 701, and the situation presupposed is Sennacherib's demand for unconditional...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In the New Jerusalem Jehovah is Judge, Lawgiver and King, and therefore also its Deliverer from every danger....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The idea of the perfect security of the righteous man leads by an easy transition to more positive features of the golden age....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 910 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY Isaiah 33:20. Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT THERE THE GLORIOUS LORD, &C.— _But the glorious name of JEHOVAH_ shall be unto us a place of confluent streams, _of broad waters._ Lowth. Our prophet always rises in his figures: the meaning of th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. SERENITY TEXT: Isaiah 33:13-24 13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. THE LORD ... THE LORD ... THE LORD - thrice repeated, as often; hinting at the Trinity (). JUDGE ... LA...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-12. The deliverance of Jerusalem from the Invader. 13-24. The Consequences of the Interposition of Jehovah for those that dwell in the City....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 33 A PRAYER FOR HELP V1 *Woe to our enemies! They ruined and cheated other people. Al...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Perhaps Isaiah is not describing any particular occasion. These verses are to encourage God’s people in any times of trouble. Whatever happens, God does not change. Live rightly. And he will provide a...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD IS OUR JUDGE... — The verb is better omitted, and the threefold iteration of the name of Jehovah, in each case with a special characteristic, taken as the subject of the final verb: “The Lord...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ שֹׁפְטֵ֔נוּ יְהוָ֖ה מְחֹקְקֵ֑נוּ יְהוָ֥ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXI OUR GOD A CONSUMING FIRE 701 B.C. Isaiah 33:1 WE have seen how the sense of forgiveness and the exultant confidence, which fill chapter 33, were brought about within a few months after...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS Isaiah 33:13-24 The devouring fire and everlasting burnings of Isaiah 33:14 are clearly the emblems of the divine presence. The righteous dwell in God as the bush which w...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter celebrates a great victory, and is prophetic of the method of the final triumph. In the first thirteen verses we have the prophet's appeal, in which there are two movements. In the first...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These precious things are said, to carry off the minds of the people from the terrors of the approaching captivity, to the prospect of gospel times, which should be accomplished by the coming of the L...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    22._For Jehovah is our judge. _The Prophet now explains the manner in which God dwells in the Church. It is, that he is there worshipped and acknowledged as _Judege, Lawgiver, _and _King; _for they wh...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Chapter s 33, 34 announce the last two great acts of judgment. At the moment when God establishes Himself in Zion, and fills it with righteousness,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE LORD [IS] OUR JUDGE,.... The Lord Christ, who has all judgment committed to him by the Father, who will judge his people, right their wrongs, and avenge their injuries: THE LORD [IS] OUR LAWG...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; he will save us. Ver. 22. _For the Lord is our judge._] Ours in all relations, therefore we shall not die or do amiss....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Look upon Zion_ Contemplate Zion's beauty and safety, and her glorious and peculiar privileges; _the city of our solemnities_ This was the chief part of Zion's glory and happiness, that God was solem...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the Lord is our Judge, who watches over His people's rights and honor; THE LORD IS OUR LAWGIVER, He who wields the general's staff in their midst; THE LORD IS OUR KING, His throne of power and mer...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SINNERS ALARMED, THE PIOUS COMFORTED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    LAWGIVER: _ Heb._ statutemaker...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-24 The true believer watches against all occasions of sin. The Divine power will keep him safe, and his faith in that power will keep him easy. He shall want nothing needful for him. Every blessin...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD IS OUR JUDGE; to judge for us, to plead our cause against our enemies, as the ancient judges of Israel did, JUD 2 16. OUR LAWGIVER; our chief Governor, to whom it. belongs to give laws, and t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 33:22 LORD H3068 Judge H8199 (H8802) LORD H3068 Lawgiver H2710 (H8781) LORD H3068 King H4428 save...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 33 THE SIXTH WOE AGAINST THOSE WHO DESPOIL OTHERS AND WHO ARE TREACHEROUS. The sixth woe seems in context to be directed against Assyria for some treacherous act. We can compare and contrast h...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PERFECT PARADISE (ISAIAH 33:21). In this chapter His people are to mount level by level into the presence of the Holy One. Firstly it has happened by their response to an awareness of God's holine...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 64:8 ; ISAIAH 33:22 God is related to each of us both as a Father and a King. The idea of a Father contains more prominently the sentiment of bountiful and tender cherishing, while that of a Ki...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The distress of Judah and Jerusalem because of coming woes. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The righteous God pays sinners in their own coin. When they have filled up the measure of their ini...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 33:1. _Woe to thee,_ thou spoiler, who hast not been spoiled; _AND THOU PLUNDERER, WHO HAST NOT BEEN PLUNDERED._ When thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; When thou art weary of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the Lord is our Judge. .. lawgiver. .. king_ SALVATION IN HARMONY WITH DIVINE RELATIONS The advent of sin into the world is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. It was the introductio...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams_ THE GLORIOUS LORD, THE ONLY SECURITY AND CONSOLATION TO HIS PEOPLE I. THE LORD HIMSELF IS THE FOUNDATION OR CAUSE OF THE SAINT...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities--_ ISAIAH’S IMAGERY Among the images which crowd the concluding verses of this chapter, we may perhaps, without fancifulness, distinguish an under-current...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 33:22 THE LORD... THE LORD... THE LORD... HE. The redeemed finally attribute all of their happiness to their all-sufficient Lord alone....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A CONTROLLING FACT Isaiah 33:22. _The Lord is our Judge_. An immense step has been taken in the moral development of any one who has been led to say this with the understanding, with a vivid percept...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION X. A PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA (Isaiah 33:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 33:1 THE JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now chapter 33 begins with a warning to the Assyrians. Woe unto thee that spoilest, and you have not been spoiled; you that deal treacherously, you've not been dealt treacherously with! (Isaiah 33:1)...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 5:10; Acts 5:31; Deuteronomy 33:2; Genesis 18:25;...

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