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Isaiah 33:3-4

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 33:3 when you. That is, God. your spoil. That is, the goods taken after the defeat of the “destroyer” nations; they are collected by God’s people, who benefit from his final victory (see Exodus 3:21; Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 11:14; Isaiah 33:23).

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See also Isaiah 33:3-4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 33:3. _AT THE NOISE OF THE TUMULT _- "From thy terrible voice"] For המון _hamon_, "multitude," the _Septuagint_ and _Syriac_ read _amica_, "terrible," whom I follow....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AT THE NOISE OF THE TUMULT - Lowth supposes that this is addressed by the prophet in the name of God, or rather by God himself to the Assyrian, and that it means that notwithstanding the terror which...

  • 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

    THE PEOPLE. peoples. THE NATIONS. nations....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _At the noise of the tumult_ the convulsions which attend the manifestation of Jehovah. The phrase is found in 1 Kings 18:41 of a rain storm, and in Isaiah 13:4 of a multitudinous host....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Assurance of Jehovah's victory, founded on the great deliverances of the past. The perfects in Isaiah 33:3 may be either those of experience, expressing a general truth often verified in history, or o...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    O LORD, BE GRACIOUS UNTO US— In this apostrophe to God, the first part contains the supplication; the other, the salvation obtained in consequence thereof. In the supplication there is that difference...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. SUBJUGATION TEXT: Isaiah 33:1-12 1 Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to destr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt...

  • 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

    Disaster overtakes the enemy. PEOPLE.. NATIONS] refer to the various races subject to Sennacherib and serving in his army....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AT THE NOISE OF THE TUMULT... — The “people” are the mingled nations of the Assyrian armies; the “tumult” is that of the rush and crash, as of a mighty tempest, when Jehovah should at last up lift Him...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ קֹּ֣ול הָמֹ֔ון נָדְד֖וּ עַמִּ֑ים מֵ רֹ֣ומְ

  • 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

    GOD EXALTED IN JUDGMENT Isaiah 33:1-12 Here we have the final prediction against Sennacherib. He had dealt very treacherously by returning against Jerusalem, though he had taken a heavy ransom to lea...

  • 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

    At the noise of the tumult the (f) people fled; at the (g) lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. (f) That is, the Assyrians fled before the army of the Chaldeans, or the Chaldeans for fea...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If the Prophet be here speaking of general things, the whole will be suited to all times, in the Church. God's faithfulness is the same: the efficacy of Christ's blood and righteousness, the same: and...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._At the voice of the tumult the peoples fled. _He now returns to the former doctrine, or rather he continues it, after having inserted a short exclamation. He had already shewn that the Assyrians wo...

  • 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

    AT THE NOISE OF THE TUMULT THE PEOPLE FLED,.... The Vulgate Latin Version renders it, "at the voice of the angel"; and Jerom reports it as the opinion of the Jews, that it was Gabriel; and many interp...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. Ver. 3. _At the noise of the tumult the people fled,_] _i.e., _ The Assyrian soldiers shall flee a...

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

    _At the noise of the tumult_ Which shall be made upon the angel's destroying the army; _the people fled_ Namely, those of the army who escaped that stroke. _At the lifting up of thyself_ To execute ju...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PUNISHMENT STRIKES THE ADVERSARY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    At the noise of the tumult, as Jehovah makes ready to punish the enemy, THE PEOPLE FLED, as before the onset of a powerful army; AT THE LIFTING UP OF THYSELF THE NATIONS WERE SCATTERED, their armies f...

  • 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

    AT THE NOISE OF THE TUMULT, which the angel shall make in destroying the army. THE PEOPLE; those of the army who escaped that stroke. THE NATIONS; the people of divers nations, which made up his army....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 33:3 noise H6963 tumult H1995 people H5971 flee H5074 (H8804) lift H7427 nations H1471 scattered H5310 ...

  • 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 GREAT DELIVERANCE AT JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 33:1). Assyria is chided for its greed and treachery, and Yahweh's people plead for deliverance. But the invasion is going forward and the spoil is being gat...

  • 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 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

    Isaiah 10:13; Isaiah 10:14; Isaiah 10:32; Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The noise — Which the angel shall make in destroying the army. The people — Those of the army, who escaped that stroke. The nations — The people of divers nations, which made up this army....

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