Isaiah 33:9

The land mourned, and was sick; the Lebanon was shamed, and was foul; and Sharon is made as desert, and Bashan is shaken, and Carmel. (The land mourned, and was sick; Lebanon was shamed, and defiled; and Sharon is made a desert, or a wilderness, and Bashan, and Carmel, be shaken bare.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

In Context

8[The] Ways be destroyed, a goer by the path ceased; the covenant is made void, he casted down [the] cities, he areckoned not men.

10Now I shall rise (up), saith the Lord, now I shall be enhanced (or now I shall be exalted), and now I shall be raised up.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:4and we wasted all his cities in one time; no town there was of his that escaped us; we destroyed sixty cities, all the country of Argob, of the realm of Og in Bashan. (and we destroyed all his cities at that time; there was no town of his that escaped us; we destroyed sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.)

Song of Solomon 2:1I am a flower of the field, and a lily of great valleys. (I am a flower of Sharon, and a lily of the great valley.)

Isaiah 2:13and on all the cedars of the Lebanon high and raised (up), and on all the oaks of Bashan,

Isaiah 14:8Also (the) fir trees and cedars of the Lebanon were glad on thee; (and said), Since thou sleptest, none ascendeth that cutteth us down.

Isaiah 24:4The earth mourned, and floated away, and is made sick; the world floated away, the highness of the people of [the] earth is made sick,

Isaiah 35:2It burgeoning shall burgeon, and it glad and praising shall make full out joy. The glory of Lebanon is given to it, the fairness of Carmel and of Sharon; they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the fairness of our God.

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 →

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