Isaiah 30:33

For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

In Context

32And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:24For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Psalms 40:5I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; 1 Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. 1

Isaiah 30:27Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, burning wrath: the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his wrath shall devour as fire.

Isaiah 37:38And while he was worshiping Nisroch his country’s god in the house, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Jeremiah 19:6Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial place of the son of Hinnom, but, The burial place of slaughter.

Ezekiel 32:22There are Assyria and all his company: all his slain have been laid there:

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:28-33

Judgments on Assyria. ( b. c. 720.) 27 Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. 29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when… Read the whole commentary →

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