Isaiah 33:8
The highways are deserted; there are no more travelers. 1 Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, and mankind is not respected. + 33:8 Instead of witness are despised , some versions have cities are despised . 1
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In Context
7Look, their envoys cry in the streets; the diplomats hoping for peace weep bitterly. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 26:22I will send dangerous animals against you, which will steal your children, destroy your cattle, and make you few in number. So your roads will become deserted.
1 Samuel 17:10Again the Philistine said, “I challenge the ranks of Israel today. Give me a man so we may fight together.”
2 Kings 18:13Then in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Psalms 10:5He is secure at all times, 1 but your righteous decrees are too high for him; 1 he snorts at all his enemies. 1
Isaiah 10:13For he says, 1 “By my strength and by my wisdom I acted. I have understanding, 1 and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples. I have stolen their treasures, 1 and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants. 1
Isaiah 35:8A highway will be there called The Holy Way. 1 The unclean will not travel it. But it will be for him who walks in it. 1 No fool will go on it. 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 →