Isaiah 33:18-19 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:19

Thou shalt not see a fierce people - Or, rather, ‘this fierce and boasting people you shall not see.’ They shall not enter the city; but though they are advancing with so much confidence, they shall be suddenly cut, off and destroyed. The word rendered “fierce,” (נועז nô‛âz from נעז yâ‛az), probably means strong, or wicked. Lowth renders it, ‘barbarous people,’ as if it were לועז lô‛ēz. Michaelis also adopts this reading by supposing an error in transcribing, a change of the Hebrew letter... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 33:17-18

Isaiah 33:17-18. 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 his beauty, in his royal robes, and with a pleasing aspect, to the great joy of all his loving subjects. Thine eyes shall see the King Messiah, (typified by Hezekiah,) triumphing over all his enemies, and ruling his own people with righteousness. Those that walk uprightly shall... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 33:19

Isaiah 33:19. Thou shalt not see a fierce people As Moses said of the Egyptians, (Exodus 14:13,) The Egyptians, whom you have seen to- day, you shall see them again no more; so I say of the Assyrians, that fierce and warlike people, whom thou hast seen, with great terror, near the walls of Jerusalem, thou shalt see them again no more; a people of a deeper speech, &c. A foreign nation whose language is unknown to thee. Of a stammering tongue, &c. Of which see on Isaiah 28:11. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:1-24

Assyria defeated; Jerusalem blessed (33:1-24)In speaking again about the current situation, Isaiah announces God’s judgment on the Assyrians. They have plundered greedily and acted treacherously (33:1). Isaiah cries to God to save Jerusalem, so that the enemy armies will flee and the Jerusalemites can seize the goods left behind (2-4). Assured that God will act, the prophet praises him before the actual victory. God gives his people security and wisdom, and they respond with reverence and trust... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:18

scribe. = the counter. receiver = the weigher. he that counted, &c. Referring to Sennacherib's besieging army. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:19

fierce, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49 , Deuteronomy 28:50 ). stammering = jabbering. tongue. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for the language spoken by it. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 33:17-18

Isaiah 33:17-18. 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, in the deliverance and salvation of his believing people; temporal, under the Maccabees; spiritual, in and by the Messiah. For the ancient prophets generally speak of these two conjointly; because the external deliverance and salvation by the Maccabees was a type of the spiritual... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 33:19

Isaiah 33:19. Thou shalt not see a fierce people— While the people of God should see the king in his beauty, while they should see their land widely extending itself, they should no more see a barbarous enemy, or one of a stammering tongue and foreign speech, which they could not understand. They should be freed from a cruel and troublesome enemy, whose aspect and commerce had been a terror to them. Compare Dan 8:23 where Antiochus Epiphanes is called a king of fierce countenance; and see... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:18

18. meditate—on the "terror" caused by the enemy, but now past. where, c.—the language of the Jews exulting over their escape from danger. scribe—who enrolled the army [MAURER] or, who prescribed the tribute to be paid [ROSENMULLER]; or, who kept an account of the spoil. "The principal scribe of the host" (2 Kings 25:19; Jeremiah 52:25). The Assyrian records are free from the exaggerations of Egyptian records. Two scribes are seen in every Assyrian bas-relief, writing down the various objects... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:19

19. fierce people—The Assyrians shall not be allowed to enter Jerusalem ( :-). Or, thou shalt not any longer see fierce enemies threatening thee as previously; such as the Assyrians, Romans, and the last Antichristian host that is yet to assail Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 28:49; Deuteronomy 28:50; Jeremiah 5:15; Zechariah 14:2). stammering—barbarous; so "deeper," &c., that is, unintelligible. The Assyrian tongue differed only in dialect from the Hebrew, but in the Assyrian levies were many of... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 33:17-18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 33:19

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:1-24

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:19

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 33:17-18

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 33:19

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:18

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:19

Group of Brands