Isaiah 33:8
6 He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
- KJV
- The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- WEB
- The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
- ASV
- The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.
- DARBY
- The highways are desolate, the wayfaring man ceaseth. He hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- BLB
- [For] the highways are desolate, the road has ceased [from] those traveling. He has broken the covenant; he has despised the witnesses; he has not regarded man.
- ÅB
- Allfarveiene er øde, det er ingen veifarende mere - han[^4] har brutt pakten[^5], foraktet byene[^6], ikke aktet noe menneske.
- OTB
- Hovedveiene ligger øde, reisende har opphørt. Pakten er brutt, byene er foraktet, og det er ingen hensyn til menneskeheten.
- B1930
- Allfarveiene er øde, det er ingen veifarende mere - han har brutt pakten, foraktet byene, ikke aktet noget menneske. / < Sankerib.> / < 2KG 18, 14 fg. 17 fg.> / < HAB 1, 10.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.
Read in contextIsaiah 35:8
And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:29–31
They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
Read in contextLamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:9–11
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
Read in contextLuke 18:2–4
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:13–14
For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
Read in context1 Samuel 17:26
David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
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