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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 33:18

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receiver. the weigher.

he that counted, &c. Referring to Sennacherib's besieging army.

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See also Isaiah 33:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 33:18. _WHERE IS THE SCRIBE?_] The person appointed by the king of Assyria to estimate their number and property in reference to their being heavily taxed. _WHERE IS THE RECEIVER?_] Or h...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THINE HEART - The heart of the people of Jerusalem. SHALL MEDITATE TERROR - This is similar to the expression in Virgil: - _forsan et haec olim meminisse jurabit_. _AEn. ii. 203._ The sense here is...

  • 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

    _shall meditate terror_ Or, better, SHALL MUSE ON THE TERROR (R.V.), strive to realise its various circumstances which have so completely disappeared. _Where_is _the scribe?… receiver_ Render with R....

  • 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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In those days it will require an effort of imagination to recall the dangers of the present, from which the nation shall have been so suddenly and so marvellously saved....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THINE EYES SHALL SEE THE KING, &C.— By the _king_ to be _seen in his beauty,_ Vitringa understands God himself, the king of the Jews, shewing himself with the brightest demonstrations of his majesty,...

  • 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

    Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers? THINE HEART SHALL MEDITATE TERROR - shall meditate on the "terror" caused by the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MEDITATE] i.e. muse upon it as something past. WHERE.. RECEIVER] RV 'where is he that counted, where is he that weighed? 'The Assyrian officials before whom the people had to appear with their tribute...

  • 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

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לִבְּךָ֖ יֶהְגֶּ֣ה אֵימָ֑ה אַיֵּ֤ה סֹפֵר֙ אַיֵּ֣ה...

  • 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

    Thy heart (y) shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers? (y) Before this liberty comes you will think that you are in great danger:...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ones. These questions were put by the people, when the enemy approached; or they now rejoice that their severe masters were gone._...

  • 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

    18._Thy heart shall meditate terror. _Believers are again informed what calamities are at hand, lest, by being suddenly overtaken with such heavy afflictions, they should sink under them. יהגה _(yehge...

  • 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

    THINE HEART SHALL MEDITATE TERROR,.... shall recollect, and think of with pleasure and thankfulness, the terror they were formerly seized with, when surrounded and oppressed by their enemies, particul...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers? Ver. 18. _Thine heart shall meditate terror._] But thou shalt now think of it...

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

    _Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty_ Hezekiah, in a more prosperous condition than formerly. Having put off his sackcloth, and all the sadness of his countenance, he shall appear publicly in...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thine heart, once more conscious of the mournful condition of the present, so unlike the future glorious state, SHALL MEDITATE TERROR, considering what fearful things have been left behind. WHERE IS T...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SINNERS ALARMED, THE PIOUS COMFORTED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    RECEIVER? _HEB._WEIGHER...

  • 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

    THINE HEART SHALL MEDITATE TERROR: this is either, 1. A premonition concerning a future judgment, as if he said, Before these glorious promises shall be accomplished, thou shalt be brought into great...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 33:18 heart H3820 meditate H1897 (H8799) terror H367 scribe H5608 (H8802) weighs H8254 (H8802) counts...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GLORY THAT IS COMING (ISAIAH 33:17). In stark contrast with all that has gone before is the destiny of God's true people. For them the future holds the promise of a permanent existence in the pre...

  • 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...

  • 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

    1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Samuel 25:33; 1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Corinthians 1:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thine heart — This is a thankful acknowledgment of deliverance from their former terrors and miseries. Where — These words they spoke in the time of their distress. The scribe, whom we call muster — m...

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