Isaiah 33:21

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:21

gallant = mighty, or noble. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 33:21-22

Isaiah 33:21-22. But there the glorious Lord, &c.— But the glorious name of JEHOVAH shall be unto us a place of confluent streams, of broad waters. Lowth. Our prophet always rises in his figures: the meaning of those in this second period is, that the church, at the time here specified, shall immediately depend upon God alone. He alone shall be acknowledged, worshipped, celebrated as the true King, Teacher, Judge, and Saviour of his church: he alone shall be esteemed excellent; and under... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:21

21. there—namely, in Jerusalem. will be . . . rivers—Jehovah will be as a broad river surrounding our city (compare Isaiah 19:6; Nahum 3:8), and this, too, a river of such a kind as no ship of war can pass (compare Nahum 3:8- :). Jerusalem had not the advantage of a river; Jehovah will be as one to it, affording all the advantages, without any of the disadvantages of one. galley with oars—war vessels of a long shape, and propelled by oars; merchant vessels were broader and carried sail.... 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 33:21

The mighty king over this Zion will be Yahweh Himself, a divine ruler-even Messiah (cf. Isaiah 53:11). "The meaning is, that, by virtue of Jehovah’s dwelling there, Jerusalem had become a place, or equivalent to a place, of broad streams, like those which in other instances defended the cities they surrounded (e.g. Babylon, the ’twisted snake,’ ch. xxvii. 1), and of broad canals, which kept off the enemy, like moats around a fortification." [Note: Delitzsch, 2:64-65.] 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 33:21

(21) A place of broad rivers and streams . . .—Better, rivers and canals. The bold imagery has its starting-point in what the prophet had heard of the great cities of the Tigris and Euphrates. What those rivers were to Nineveh and Babylon, that the presence of Jehovah would be to Jerusalem, that could boast only of the softly going waters of Shiloah (Isaiah 8:6). Here, again, we have an echo of Psalms 46:0 : “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God.” The words help... 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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