Isaiah 33:9
The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10Now I will arise, says LORD. Now I will lift up myself. Now I will be exalted.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:4And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Song of Solomon 2:1I am a rose of Sharon. A lily of the valleys.
Isaiah 2:13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 14:8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou are laid low, no hewer has come up against us.
Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
Isaiah 35:2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of LORD, the excellency of our God.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:2-13
Assyria Threatened. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O Lord , be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself… Read the whole commentary →