Isaiah 33:1-24 BSB

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:9

The earth mourneth and languisheth ,.... All Christendom, being now under the power, dominion, and tyranny of antichrist, and the church's faithful witnesses slain, and a stop put to all Gospel ministrations; and therefore the church must be in a very languishing condition, and great reason for mourning: Lebanon is ashamed, and hewn down ; being stripped of its stately cedars; as now the church of Christ, comparable to that goodly mountain Lebanon, will be deprived of its able... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:10

Now will I rise, saith the Lord ,.... At the last extremity, when things are come to a crisis; his interest at the lowest, and the kingdom of antichrist at its highest pitch; the whore of Rome triumphing over the slain witnesses, and boasting she was a queen, and knew no sorrow: this will be God's fit time to exert himself, and get him honour and glory: he before was as one lain down and asleep, as if quite negligent and careless about his honour and interest; but now he determines to arise,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:11

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble ,.... Signifying that all the counsels, designs, and schemes, of the antichristian party, to continue themselves in their present state, and save themselves from ruin, as well as utterly to destroy the interest of Christ, would be weak, vain, and fruitless; their conceptions and actions, their purposes and attempts, would be alike; would be abortive, like chaff and stubble, and only serve as such for their own destruction: your breath ... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:12

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime ,.... Like chalk stones that are burnt to make lime of; which may denote not only their hardness and impenitency, which brought upon them and issued in the wrath of God; but the miserable condition into which they are brought, and the torture they should be put to: perhaps this may refer to the casting of the beast and false prophet alive into the lake burning with fire and brimstone, Revelation 19:20 , as thorns cut up shall they be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:13

Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done ,.... Not meaning the destruction of the Assyrian, as it is commonly interpreted; but the ruin of antichrist, the beast, and false prophet, and the burning of the city and whore of Rome; for, whoever will be the instruments, the work is the Lord's, and therefore it will be done: "she shall be utterly burnt with fire, for strong is the Lord who judgeth her", Revelation 18:8 and this shall be heard of far and near, who shall applaud the mighty... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:14

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 power of it, and were for fleeing to Egypt, and trusting in Pharaoh, and not in the Lord; who were seized with dread and terror, when the Assyrian army besieged them, or when it was so awfully destroyed by the angel in the night; when, observing the visible and immediate hand of God in it, they... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh righteously ,.... These are the words of the prophet, in answer to those of the hypocrites. So the Targum, "the prophet said, the righteous shall dwell in it;' not in the devouring fire and everlasting burnings, but in Zion, in Jerusalem, on high, in the munition of rocks, safe from those burnings; for these words are to be connected not with the preceding, but with the following verse Isaiah 33:16 , "thus, he that walketh righteously", &c.; "he shall dwell on... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:16

He shall dwell on high ,.... And so in safety: this is opposed to the fears of hypocrites, the grovelling life of a worldling, and the low life of many professors, and is expressive of the security of good men. It may respect the state of the saints on earth, who dwell by faith on God, as their covenant God, on his everlasting love and unchangeable grace; on Christ, as their Redeemer and Saviour; and in their thoughts and contemplations on heavenly things, where Christ is; and particularly... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:17

Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty ,.... Not merely Hezekiah in his royal robes, and with a cheerful countenance, having put off his sackcloth and his sadness, upon the breaking up of the siege; but a greater than he, even the King Messiah, in the glory of his person and office, especially as a King reigning gloriously before his ancients in Jerusalem: the apostles saw him in his glory, in the days of his flesh, corporeally and spiritually; believers now see him by faith, crowded... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:18

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, particularly at the time of the slaying of the witnesses, which will be a terrible time to the church and people of God; but when that is over, they will call it to mind with gratitude, for deliverance from it F5 So Ben Melech interprets it, "thine heart, which was meditating terror before... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:18

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