Isaiah 33
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 33, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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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.
Isaiah 33:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 33:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Isaiah 33:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And your spoil shall be gathered {like} the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Isaiah 33:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Isaiah 33:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, {and} strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD {is} his treasure. {salvation: Heb. salvations}
Isaiah 33:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. {valiant...: or, messengers}
Isaiah 33:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
Isaiah 33:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The earth mourneth {and} languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed {and} hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off {their fruits}. {hewn...: or, withered away}
Isaiah 33:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
Isaiah 33:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, {as} fire, shall devour you.
Isaiah 33:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the people shall be {as} the burnings of lime: {as} thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
Isaiah 33:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear, ye {that are} far off, what I have done; and, ye {that are} near, acknowledge my might.
Isaiah 33:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
Isaiah 33:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; {righteously: Heb. in righteousnesses} {uprightly: Heb. uprightnesses} {oppressions: or, deceits} {blood: Heb. bloods}
Isaiah 33:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall dwell on high: his place of defence {shall be} the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters {shall be} sure. {high: Heb. heights, or, high places}
Isaiah 33:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. {that...: Heb. of far distances}
Isaiah 33:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where {is} the scribe? where {is} the receiver? where {is} he that counted the towers? {receiver: Heb. weigher?}
Isaiah 33:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, {that thou canst} not understand. {stammering: or, ridiculous}
Isaiah 33:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 33:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {of...: Heb. broad of spaces, or, hands}
Isaiah 33:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the LORD {is} our judge, the LORD {is} our lawgiver, the LORD {is} our king; he will save us. {lawgiver: Heb. statutemaker}
Isaiah 33:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. {Thy...: or, They have forsaken thy tacklings}
Isaiah 33:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein {shall be} forgiven {their} iniquity.
Isaiah 33:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.