Isaiah 33:7 - Exposition

Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without . "Their lion-hearts "(Cheyne); "heroes" (Delitzsch). Literally, lions of God (comp. Isaiah 29:1 ). They raise a cry of mourning in the streets, with child-like effusiveness (comp. Herod; 8:99; 9:24). The ambassadors of peace . Hezekiah probably sent several embassies to Sennacherib in the course of the war. One went to Lachish, offering submission, in B.C. 701 ( 2 Kings 18:14 ); another to Nineveh, with tribute and presents, in the same or the following year. A third probably sought to deprecate Sennacherib's auger, when he made his second invasion ( 2 Kings 18:17 ) in B.C. 699 (?). These last would seem to be the "ambassadors" of this verse.