Isaiah 33:8
The mesillot (highways) lie in ruins, 1 the wayfaring man ceaseth; 1 he hath annulled the brit (covenant), 1 he hath despised the towns, 1 he regardeth no enosh (humankind). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7Behold, their valiant ones shall cry in the street; 1 the malachei shalom shall weep bitterly. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 26:22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and darkheichem (your roads, ways) shall be deserted.
1 Samuel 17:10And the Pelishti said, I defy the maarkhot Yisroel this day; give me ish, that we may fight together.
2 Kings 18:13Now in the fourteenth year of Melech Chizkiyah did Sancheriv Melech Ashur come up against all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and captured them.
Psalms 10:5His ways are always prosperous; 1 Thy mishpatim are on high, out of his sight; 1 as for all his enemies, he sneers at them. 1
Isaiah 10:13For he saith, 1 By the ko'ach of my yad I have done it, 1 and by my chochmah; for I have binah; 1 and I have removed the boundaries of the nations, 1 and have plundered their treasures, 1 and like the mighty I have subdued those on thrones; 1
Isaiah 35:8And a maslul (highway) shall be there, and a derech (road), 1 and it shall be called The Derech HaKodesh (The Holy Road); 1 the tameh (unclean, impure person [see Isa 26:7]) shall not pass along it, 1 inasmuch as it shall be for them, 1 that is, the Holech Derech (Walker of the Road, i.e., whoever is the [Redeemed] Wayfarer on the Derech HaKodesh), 1 even evilim (morally bad foolish people) shall not go astray thereon. 1
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 →