Isaiah 33:1

Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in thee: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.

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Cross References

Judges 1:7And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

2 Chronicles 28:16At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, and on this occasion,

Isaiah 10:5Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

Isaiah 17:14Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.

Isaiah 24:16O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.

Jeremiah 25:12And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:1

This chapter relates to the same events as the foregoing chapter, the distress of Judah and Jerusalem by Sennacherib's invasion and their deliverance out of that distress by the destruction of the Assyrian army. These are intermixed in the prophecy, in the way of a Pindaric. Observe, I. The great distress that Judah and Jerusalem should then be brought into, ver. 7-9 . II. The particular frights which the sinners in Zion should then be in, ver. 13, 14 . III. The prayers of good people to God in this distress, ver.… Read the whole commentary →

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