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Isaiah 33:14-16

Being thus assured of a speedy answer to his prayers, the writer proceeds, in language of great force and beauty, to describe the moral effect on the Jewish people.

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See also Isaiah 33:14-16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 33:14. _THE SINNERS IN ZION ARE AFRAID_] Zion has been generally considered as a type of the Church of God. Now all the members of God's Church should be holy, and given to good works; s...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE SINNERS IN ZION ARE AFRAID - This verse is evidently designed to describe the alarm that was produced in Jerusalem on impenitent sinners and hypocrites by a view of the judgment of God on the army...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FEARFULNESS. trembling. Hebrew. _r_. _'adah._ Only here in Isaiah; and elsewhere, only in Job 4:14.Psalms 2:11; Psalms 48:6. SURPRISED. seized. WHO... ? WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. The answ...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HEAR, YE THAT ARE FAR OFF— This period is immediately connected with that preceding; wherein the divine judgment just mentioned is celebrated, and its severity defended against those hypocrites who mi...

  • 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

    The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    33:14 hypocrites. (h-11) Or 'impious,' as ch. 9.17....

  • 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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Jehovah's interposition strikes terror to the unworthy in Zion. FIRE.. BURNINGS] i.e. God, who is a consuming fire (Isaiah 30:33; Isaiah 31:9). 15, 16. The righteous finds in the manifestation of Jeh...

  • 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

    To do ‘evil deeds’ probably refers to God’s people who have turned to *worship *Assyrian gods. And those who are ‘not holy’ no longer *worship the *Lord. All such people have good reason to be afraid...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    פָּחֲד֤וּ בְ צִיֹּון֙ חַטָּאִ֔ים אָחֲזָ֥ה רְעָדָ֖ה...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The (s) sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? (s) Which do not b...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Of you. Hebrew, "of us." (Haydock) --- They are seriously alarmed at the sight of the fires prepared to burn the dead bodies of the Assyrians, (chap. xxx. 33.) and begin to think of hell, (Calmet) wh...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If temporal judgments, like those which God wrought upon the Assyrian army, had such effect upon the sinners in Zion, what will be the terror and dismay of transgressors, in the prospect of the everla...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._The sinners in Zion are afraid. _But some one might object that the subject here treated is not so important as to need that lofty preface intended to arouse the whole world. Was it a matter of so...

  • 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

    THE SINNERS IN ZION ARE AFRAID, AND FEARFULNESS HATH SURPRISED THE HYPOCRITES,.... Meaning not persons of such a character that dwelt in Jerusalem, who had the guise and form of religion, and not the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Ver. 14. _The sinners...

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

    _The sinners in Zion are afraid_ This is spoken, not of the Assyrians, but of the Jews. The prophet, having foretold the deliverance of God's people, and the destruction of their enemies, for the grea...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The sinners in Zion, those who falsely professed the religion of Israel, though their heart was not in their worship, ARE AFRAID, terrified because their hypocrisy is about to be revealed; FEARFULNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SINNERS ALARMED, THE PIOUS COMFORTED...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own coin. Those who by faith humbly wait for God, sh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE SINNERS IN ZION ARE AFRAID: this is spoken, not of the Assyrians, as some would have it, but of the Jews, as appears both from the words themselves, and from the following verses. The prophet havi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 33:14 sinners H2400 Zion H6726 afraid H6342 (H8804) Fearfulness H7461 seized H270 (H8804) hypocrites H2611 dw

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD IS SO HOLY, WHO CAN KNOW HIM? (ISAIAH 33:13). What Yahweh has done in defeating Assyria and delivering Jerusalem leads on to His depiction of His holiness and power. He is above all and will brin...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 33:14 _(with 1 John 4:16)_ I. The world's question. I need only remind you how frequently in the Old Testament the emblem of fire is employed to express the Divine nature. (1) In many places t...

  • 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

    _The sinners in Zion are afraid_ “THE SINNERS IN ZION” What a contradiction in terms! what a shock to the fancy! Zion! fair Zion, a dewdrop, a glittering star, a garden of beauty, a sweet flower, po...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 33:13 YOU WHO ARE FAR OFF are the GODLESS, and YOU WHO ARE NEAR are SINNERS IN ZION. God’s people, though called to share

  • 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 Thessalonians 1:8; Deuteronomy 32:21; Deuteronomy 5:24; Deuteronomy 5:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The sinners — This is spoken of the Jews. The prophet having foretold the deliverance of God's people, and the destruction of their enemies, gives a lively representation of the unbelieving condition,...

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