Isaiah 33:20

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:20

Look = Gaze. the city. Figure of speech Polyonymia. solemnities = festal-days. Reference to Pentateuch, where the word frequently occurs (compare Leviticus 23:0 .Numbers 15:0 , &c). tabernacle = tent. Hebrew. 'ohel. App-40 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 33:20

Isaiah 33:20. Look upon Zion— The prophet here, representing the chorus of teachers comforting the people of God, commands this people to turn their attention to Jerusalem, after its restoration flourishing greatly; and promises to them the durable stability of that state, under the metaphor of a tent sustaining itself by stakes and cords against winds and storms, and affording a safe and secure shelter to those within it. In this passage he is generally thought to refer to the spiritual... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:20

20. solemnities—solemn assemblies at the great feasts (see on :-; :-; :-). not . . . taken down . . . removed—image from captives "removed" from their land (Isaiah 36:17). There shall be no more "taking away" to an enemy's land. Or else, from nomads living in shifting tents. The saints, who sojourned once in tabernacles as pilgrims, shall have a "building of God—eternal in the heavens" (2 Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 11:9; Hebrews 11:10; compare Isaiah 54:2). stakes—driven into the ground; to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 33:17-24

The King of Zion 33:17-24The subject now shifts from the people who will inhabit the future Zion to the king who will rule there. This is a revelation of Messiah’s universal rule. It is a picture that stands in stark contrast to the one Isaiah painted of the present Jerusalem in chapters 28-31. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 33:20

Zion had a future that Isaiah’s audience needed to contemplate. It would be a place where God’s people would feast and rejoice in fellowship with Him. It would be a peaceful, secure, durable habitation-in contrast to the temporary and vulnerable tents of their nomadic forefathers, and of all the Israelites during the wilderness wanderings. The seemingly endless pilgrimages of the Israelites would finally be over. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 33:1-24

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.1. The Assyrian is addressed. That spoilest, etc.] may mean, (1) that the Assyrian attacked Judah without provocation, or (2) that he has so far spoiled other nations unchecked.2. Their arm] viz. Jerusalem’s defenders’.3. Disaster overtakes the enemy. People.. nations] refer to the various races subject to Sennacherib and serving in his army.4. As.. upon... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 33:20

(20) Look upon Zion . . .—The words sound like an echo of Psalms 46, 48, which were probably written by the sons of Korah on the destruction of Sennacherib’s army. Men had seen Zion desecrated by Ahaz, besieged by Sennacherib; now they should see it once again as it had been at the beginning of Hezekiah’s reign, emphatically a “city of solemnities,” a tent that shall not be removed, the latter words probably referring to Sennacherib’s threat of deportation (Isaiah 36:17). read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 33:1-24

God Is a Consuming Fire Isaiah 33:14-16 This passage contains a question, and the reply to the question, and an assurance over and above the reply. I. Consider the answer here given to the inquiry about dwelling with God. The possession of spiritual life shown to be spiritual life by the external manifestations of walking righteously, and speaking uprightly, and holding aloof from evil is the one thing which enables a man to stand without being consumed in the consuming fire of the presence of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:1-24

CHAPTER XXIOUR GOD A CONSUMING FIRE701 B.C.Isaiah 33:1-24WE have seen how the sense of forgiveness and the exultant confidence, which fill chapter 33, were brought about within a few months after the sentence of death, that cast so deep a gloom on chapter 22. We have expounded some of the contents of chapter 33, but have not exhausted the chapter; and in particular we have not touched one of Isaiah’s principles, which there finds perhaps its finest expression: the consuming righteousness of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 33:1-24

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 33:2-6 ) 3. The judgment executed (Isaiah 33:7-13 ) 4. The judge in the midst of Zion (Isaiah 33:14-16 ) 5. The King beheld in His beauty (Isaiah 33:17-23 ) 6. Healing and forgiveness the result of the coming of the King (Isaiah 33:24 ) This is the last mention which is made of the Assyrian apart from the historical chapters. Here... read more

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