George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 33:21
Of rivers. He speaks of the rivers of endless joys that flow from the throne of God to water the heavenly Jerusalem, like a deep river. (Calmet)
Of rivers. He speaks of the rivers of endless joys that flow from the throne of God to water the heavenly Jerusalem, like a deep river. (Calmet)
Verse Isaiah 33:21. _THE GLORIOUS LORD _- "The glorious name of JEHOVAH"] I take שם _shem_ for a noun, with the _Septuagint_ and _Syriac_. See Psalms 20:1; Proverbs 18:10....
BUT THERE - In Jersalem; or in his church, of which Jerusalem was the emblem. THE GLORIOUS LORD - Lowth renders it, ‘The glorious name of Yahweh,’ שׁם _shâm_ to be a noun, as if it were pointed שׁם _...
CHAPTER 33 Sixth Woe Against the Assyrian and What Is to Follow 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 33:1)_ 2. _The prayer of the faithful remnant (Isaiah 33:2)_ 3. _The judgment executed (Isaiah 33:7)...
ISAIAH 33. DENUNCIATION OF THE TREACHEROUS FOE. ZION'S EXTREMITY, YAHWEH'S OPPORTUNITY. If Isaiah's, the date is apparently 701, and the situation presupposed is Sennacherib's demand for unconditional...
GALLANT. mighty, or noble....
The idea of the perfect security of the righteous man leads by an easy transition to more positive features of the golden age....
The permanent peace and inviolability of Jerusalem, the centre of the true religion: see ch. Isaiah 32:18....
Here Jerusalem is represented like the great cities of the Nile and Euphrates (cf. Nahum 3:8), as surrounded by an expanse of waters, protecting it from the approach of an enemy. The idea of course is...
DISCOURSE: 910 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY Isaiah 33:20. 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...
BUT THERE THE GLORIOUS LORD, &C.— _But the glorious name of JEHOVAH_ shall be unto us a place of confluent streams, _of broad waters._ Lowth. Our prophet always rises in his figures: the meaning of th...
4. SERENITY TEXT: Isaiah 33:13-24 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; trembling hath seized the godless...
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. BUT THERE - namely, in Jerusalem. T...
33:21 of (a-11) or 'the mighty Jehovah will there be for us a place of.'...
The image is changed to that of a city encircled by a protecting stream: cp. Psalms 46:4; Nahum 3:8....
1-12. The deliverance of Jerusalem from the Invader. 13-24. The Consequences of the Interposition of Jehovah for those that dwell in the City....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 33 A PRAYER FOR HELP V1 *Woe to our enemies! They ruined and cheated other people. Al...
Perhaps Isaiah is not describing any particular occasion. These verses are to encourage God’s people in any times of trouble. Whatever happens, God does not change. Live rightly. And he will provide a...
A PLACE OF BROAD RIVERS AND STREAMS... — Better, _rivers and canals._ The bold imagery has its starting-point in what the prophet had heard of the great cities of the Tigris and Euphrates. What those...
כִּ֣י אִם ־שָׁ֞ם אַדִּ֤יר יְהוָה֙ לָ֔נוּ מְקֹ
CHAPTER XXI OUR GOD A CONSUMING FIRE 701 B.C. Isaiah 33:1 WE have seen how the sense of forgiveness and the exultant confidence, which fill chapter 33, were brought about within a few months after...
THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS Isaiah 33:13-24 The devouring fire and everlasting burnings of Isaiah 33:14 are clearly the emblems of the divine presence. The righteous dwell in God as the bush which w...
This chapter celebrates a great victory, and is prophetic of the method of the final triumph. In the first thirteen verses we have the prophet's appeal, in which there are two movements. In the first...
But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place (z) of broad rivers [and] streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it. (z) Let us be content with th...
These precious things are said, to carry off the minds of the people from the terrors of the approaching captivity, to the prospect of gospel times, which should be accomplished by the coming of the L...
_THE RIVERS OF GOD_ ‘But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.’ Isaiah 33:21 I....
21._Because there the mighty Jehovah will be to us. _The two particles כי ים (ki im) often serve the place of a double affirmative, but here a reason is assigned, and they might even be appropriately...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Chapter s 33, 34 announce the last two great acts of judgment. At the moment when God establishes Himself in Zion, and fills it with righteousness,...
BUT THERE THE GLORIOUS LORD [WILL BE] UNTO US A PLACE OF BROAD RIVERS [AND] STREAMS,.... Egypt had its Nile, and Babylon its Euphrates, but Jerusalem had no such river for its convenience, commerce, a...
But there the glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of broad rivers [and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. Ver. 21. _But there the glorious Lo...
Isa. 33:21. Jerusalem had no considerable river running by it, as the royal cities in Egypt and Assyria and Chaldea and most great cities had; nothing but the brook Kedron, upon which account their en...
_Look upon Zion_ Contemplate Zion's beauty and safety, and her glorious and peculiar privileges; _the city of our solemnities_ This was the chief part of Zion's glory and happiness, that God was solem...
But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams, that is, by virtue of the indwelling of God in the midst of His people the Church would be like a great city, which is...
THE SINNERS ALARMED, THE PIOUS COMFORTED...
BROAD RIVERS AND STREAMS: _ Heb._ broad of spaces or hands...
15-24 The true believer watches against all occasions of sin. The Divine power will keep him safe, and his faith in that power will keep him easy. He shall want nothing needful for him. Every blessin...
THERE, in and about Zion, THE GLORIOUS LORD WILL BE UNTO US A PLACE OF BROAD RIVERS AND STREAMS: though we have nothing but a small and contemptible brook to defend us; yet God will be as sure and str...
Isaiah 33:21 majestic H117 LORD H3068 place H4725 broad H7342 H3027 rivers H5104 streams H2975 no H1077 galley...
THE PERFECT PARADISE (ISAIAH 33:21). In this chapter His people are to mount level by level into the presence of the Holy One. Firstly it has happened by their response to an awareness of God's holine...
CHAPTER 33 THE SIXTH WOE AGAINST THOSE WHO DESPOIL OTHERS AND WHO ARE TREACHEROUS. The sixth woe seems in context to be directed against Assyria for some treacherous act. We can compare and contrast h...
Isaiah 33:20 To our Zion, to the Church of Christ, are promised explicitly such gifts as those of the text unity, truth, success. Of which of them, it may be asked, can we make our boast? I. The unit...
CONTENTS: The distress of Judah and Jerusalem because of coming woes. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The righteous God pays sinners in their own coin. When they have filled up the measure of their ini...
Isaiah 33:1. _Woe to thee,_ thou spoiler, who hast not been spoiled; _AND THOU PLUNDERER, WHO HAST NOT BEEN PLUNDERED._ When thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; When thou art weary of...
_The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams_ THE GLORIOUS LORD, THE ONLY SECURITY AND CONSOLATION TO HIS PEOPLE I. THE LORD HIMSELF IS THE FOUNDATION OR CAUSE OF THE SAINT...
_Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities--_ ISAIAH’S IMAGERY Among the images which crowd the concluding verses of this chapter, we may perhaps, without fancifulness, distinguish an under-current...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 33:21 BROAD RIVERS AND STREAMS. Abundant provision (see Isaiah 41:18). WHERE NO GALLEY WITH OARS CAN GO. No attack
ENRICHING RIVERS Isaiah 33:21. _But there the glorious Lord shall be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby_. The p...
SECTION X. A PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA (Isaiah 33:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 33:1 THE JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA
Now chapter 33 begins with a warning to the Assyrians. Woe unto thee that spoilest, and you have not been spoiled; you that deal treacherously, you've not been dealt treacherously with! (Isaiah 33:1)...
2 Corinthians 4:4; Acts 7:2; Psalms 29:3; Psalms 46:4; Psalms 46:5...
There — In and about Zion. Rivers — Tho' we have nothing but a small and contemptible brook to defend us; yet God will be as sure a defence to us, as if we were surrounded with great rivers. No galley...