Isaiah 33:14

The people who sin ·intentionally miss the mark goal· in Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking] are afraid. 2 Trembling has seized the godless ones. 1 Who among us can live with the devouring fire? 2 Who among us can live with everlasting burning? 1

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In The King James Version

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

In Context

13Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, you who are far off, what I have done; 2 and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.” 1

15He who walks righteously, 2 and speaks blamelessly; 2 He who despises the gain of oppressions, 2 who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, 2 who stops his ears from sh'ma ·hearing obeying· plots of blood, + 33:15 Note: Blood figuratively means murder. 2 and shuts his eyes from looking at evil— 1

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Cross References

Numbers 17:12The children of Israel [God prevails] spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. 2 They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. 1 I will provoke them to jealousy with those who are not a people. 2 I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. + 32:21. Quoted in Rom 10:19, 11:11 1

Psalms 21:9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. 2 Adonai will swallow them up in his wrath. 2 The fire shall devour them. 1

Psalms 53:5There they were in great fear, where no fear was, 2 for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. 1 You have put them to shame, 2 because God has rejected them. 1

Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, 2 and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, 2 so their root shall be as rottenness, 2 and their blossom shall go up as dust; 1 because they have rejected the Torah ·Teaching· of Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies], 2 and despised the word of haKadosh Isra'el [the Holy One of God prevails]. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:14-24

The Forebodings of Hypocrites; Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 710.) 13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears… Read the whole commentary →

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