At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
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At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
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At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
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At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of Thyself the nations are scattered.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 33:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 10:13-14 For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
- Psalms 46:6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
- Isaiah 10:32-34 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
- Isaiah 17:12-14 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
- Isaiah 37:11-18 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’ ” Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh. Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
- Isaiah 59:16-18 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him. He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
- Isaiah 37:29-36 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. “ ‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’ “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh. ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ” Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain When thou, O Lord, didst lift up thine arm…
When thou, O Lord, didst lift up thine arm to punish thine enemies.
That is, the Assyrians fled before the army of the Chaldeans, or the Chaldeans for fear of the Medes and Persians.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 33:3 At the noise of the tumult the…
Isa 33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Ver. 3. At the noise of the tumult the people fled,] i.e., The Assyrian soldiers shall flee at the coming of the angel, with a hurry noise in the air for greater terror; {a} but he shall give them their passport. This their confidence was the fruit of prayer.
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At the lifting up of thyself.] If God do but "arise" only, "his enemies shall be scattered; and all that hate him shall flee before him." {Psa 68:1} {See Trapp on "Psa 68:1"}
{a} A voce angeli. - Vulg.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain At the noise of the tumult, which the angel…
At the noise of the tumult, which the angel shall make in destroying the army.
The people; those of the army who escaped that stroke.
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The nations; the people of divers nations, which made up his army.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain At the noise of the tumult the people fled,....…
At the noise of the tumult the people fled,.... The Vulgate Latin Version renders it, "at the voice of the angel"; and Jerom reports it as the opinion of the Jews, that it was Gabriel; and many interpret the words either of the noise the angel made in the air, or was made in the Assyrian camp, when the angel descended, and smote such a vast number of them, at which the remnant, being frightened, fled, Kg2 19:35 but either this is to be understood as expressing what had been done in time past, and therefore the church took encouragement that it might and would be so again; or as a continuance of her prayer, thus, "at the noise of the tumult", or multitude (t), "let the people flee" (u); or as a prediction, "they shall flee" (w); that is, at the noise of the multitude of saints, the faithful, called, and chosen armies of heaven, that follow Christ on white horses, and clothed in white; when he shall go forth to battle with the kings of the earth, beast, and false prophet, let the people under them flee, or they shall flee, and not be able to stand before so puissant a General, and so powerful an army; see Rev 17:14,
at the lifting up of thyself, the nations were scattered; so it has been in times past, when the Lord has lifted up himself, and appeared on behalf of his people, and has exerted himself, and displayed his power; and so it will be again; or so let it be: "let the nations be scattered"; the antichristian nations, as they will be, when the Lord shall lift up his hand, and pour out the vials of his wrath upon them.
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(t) "a voce multitudinis", Pagninus; "a voce turbae", Montanus, Cocceius. (u) Fugiant, so some in Gataker. (w) Profugient, Piscator.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The noise - Which the angel shall make in…
The noise - Which the angel shall make in destroying the army. The people - Those of the army, who escaped that stroke. The nations - The people of divers nations, which made up this army.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. At the noise of the tumult -…
Verse 3. At the noise of the tumult - "From thy terrible voice"] For המון hamon, "multitude," the Septuagint and Syriac read amica, "terrible," whom I follow.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 33:3-4. At the noise of the tumult —…
Isa 33:3-4. At the noise of the tumult — Which shall be made upon the angel’s destroying the army; the people fled — Namely, those of the army who escaped that stroke. At the lifting up of thyself — To execute judgment; the nations were scattered — The people of divers nations which made up Sennacherib’s army. And your spoil — That treasure which you have raked together by spoiling divers people; shall be gathered — By the Jews at Jerusalem, when you shall be forced to flee away with all possible speed, leaving your spoils behind you; like the gathering of the caterpillar — As caterpillars gather and devour all the fruits of the earth, which was a common plague in those countries; as the running to and fro of locusts, &c. — As locusts, especially when they are armed by commission from God, come with great force, and run hither and thither devouring every thing before them; shall he run upon them — Namely, Hezekiah, with his people, shall thus eagerly run to the spoil of the Assyrian camp, and shall take it.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain At the noise of the tumult - Lowth supposes…
At the noise of the tumult - Lowth supposes that this is addressed by the prophet in the name of God, or rather by God himself to the Assyrian, and that it means that notwithstanding the terror which he had caused the invaded countries, he would himself fall and become an easy prey to those whom he intended to subdue. But probably it should be regarded as a part of the address which the Jews made to Yahweh Isa 33:2, and the word ‘tumult’ - המון hâmôn, sound, noise, as of rain 1Ki 18:41, or of music Eze 26:13; Amo 5:23, or the bustle or tumult of a people 1Sa 4:11; 1Sa 14:19; Job 39:7 - refers here to the voice of God by which the army was overthrown. Yahweh is often represented as speaking to people in a voice suited to produce consternation and alarm. Thus it is said of the vision which Daniel saw of a man by the side of the river Hiddekel, ‘his words’ were ‘like the voice of a multitude’ (המון hâmôn), Dan 10:6. And thus, in Rev 1:10, the voice of Christ is said to have been ‘like the voice of a trulupet;’ and in Isa 33:15, ‘like the sound of many waters.’ It wilt be recollected also that it was said that God would send upon the Assyrian army ‘thunder, and an earthquake, and a great noise, with storm and tempest, and a flame of devouring fire’ (Isa 29:6; compare Isa 30:30); and it is doubtless to this prediction that the prophet refers here. God would come forth with the voice of indignation, and would scatter the combined armies of the Assyrian.
The people fled - The people in the army of the Assyrian. A large part of them Were slain by the angel of the Lord in a single night, but a portion of them with Sennacherib escaped and fled to their own land (Isa 37:36-37.
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At the lifting up of thyself - Of Yahweh; as when one rouses himself to strike.
The nations - The army of Sennacherib was doubtless made up of levies from the nations that had been subdued, and that composed the Assyrian empire.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the tumult--the approach of Jehovah is likened to an…
the tumult--the approach of Jehovah is likened to an advancing thunderstorm (Isa 29:6; Isa 30:27), which is His voice (Rev 1:15), causing the people to "flee."
nation--the Assyrian levies.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3, 4. The prophet is not left in doubt.…
3, 4. The prophet is not left in doubt. He sees the answer. The deliverance is yet future, but he sees it as if it were past, or now transpiring.
At the noise of the tumult the people (Assyrian) fled; at the lifting up of thyself — Words figuratively expressing the silent power of Jehovah in destroying the enemy. See Isa_37:36-37. A demonstration of thunder and great noise from the heavens is unnecessarily assumed by some.
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Your spoil — That of the destroyed and routed armies.
Shall be gathered — By the inhabitants of Jerusalem going to the evening’s abandoned camps, and, like hungry locusts and caterpillars, (as they sweep clean every thing on which they light,) hastily seizing every thing they find.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. At the noise of the tumult] the convulsions…
3. At the noise of the tumult] the convulsions which attend the manifestation of Jehovah. The phrase is found in 1Ki_18:41 of a rain storm, and in Isa_13:4 of a multitudinous host.
3, 4. Assurance of Jehovah’s victory, founded on the great deliverances of the past. The perfects in Isa_33:3 may be either those of experience, expressing a general truth often verified in history, or of prophetic assurance. Isa_33:4 seems to apply this truth to the present crisis.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) At the noise of the tumult . .…
(3) At the noise of the tumult . . .—The “people” are the mingled nations of the Assyrian armies; the “tumult” is that of the rush and crash, as of a mighty tempest, when Jehovah should at last up lift Himself for the deliverance of His chosen ones.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain At the noise of the tumult the people fled;…
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; rather, the peoples; i.e. the contingents from many nations which made up the huge army of Sennacherib. The "noise" is that caused by God "lifting up himself". (comp. Psa_29:3-9)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 At the loud noise the peoples flee
At the loud noise the peoples flee
Possible meanings of "the loud noise" are 1) it refers to Yahweh's voice. AT: "The peoples flee at the sound of your loud voice" or 2) it refers the loud sounds of Yahweh's army. AT: "The people flee at the sound of your army" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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arise
This means to begin doing something. AT: "begin acting" (See: Idiom)
the nations are scattered
This can be written in active form. AT: "the nations scatter" (See: Active or Passive)
Your spoil is gathered as the locusts gather; as locusts leap, men leap on it
This compares how quick and eager Yahweh's people are when they gather the spoils from their enemies to the eagerness of locusts when they gather food. This can be stated in active form. AT: "Your people gather spoils from your enemies with the same fierceness as the locusts have who devour green plants" (See: Simile and Active or Passive)
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