Isaiah 33:20

Look at Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], the city of our appointed festivals. 2 Your eyes will see Jerusalem [City of peace], a quiet habitation, 2 a tent that won’t be removed. 1 Its stakes will never be plucked up, 2 nor will any of its cords be broken. 1

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In The King James Version

Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

In Context

19You will no longer see the fierce people, 2 a people of a deep speech that you can’t sh'ma ·hear understand obey·, 2 with a strange language that you can’t understand. 1

21But there Adonai will be with us in majesty, 2 a place of wide rivers and streams, 2 in which no galley with oars will go, 2 neither will any gallant ship pass by there. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:16+ 16:16. Deut 16:16 (Deut 16:16-17; Ex 23:14-17, 34:22-24) (#4.352): T. To make pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Adonai’s three pilgrim feasts / R. To be seen at the Temple on Pesac ·Passover·, Shavu'ot ·Weeks·, and Sukkot ·Tabernacles· Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Adonai your God in the place which he chooses: in the festival of Matzah ·Unleavened bread·, in the festival of Shavu'ot ·Weeks· / Pentacost ·Fifty·, and in the festival of Sukkot ·Booths·. + 16:16. Deut 16:16 (Deut 16:16-17) (#8.524): Not to appear at the Temple (for the pilgrim feasts) without offerings They shall not appear before Adonai empty.

Psalms 46:6The nations raged. + 46:6. Quoted in Rev 11:18 The kingdoms were moved. 2 He lifted his voice, and the earth melted. 1

Psalms 48:13Mark well her bulwarks. 2 Consider her palaces, 2 that you may tell it to the next generation. 1

Psalms 125:1Those who trust in Adonai are as Mount Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], 2 which can’t be moved, but remains forever. 1

Isaiah 4:5Adonai will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the kavod ·weighty glory· will be a canopy.

Isaiah 37:33Therefore Adonai says concerning the king of Assyria [Level plain], ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

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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