Isaiah 33:14 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

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ASV

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?

KJV

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?

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The sinners in Zion are afraid - Zion has been generally considered as a type of the Church of God. Now all the members of God’s Church should be holy, and given to good works; sinners in Zion, therefore, are portentous beings! but, alas! where are they not? The Targum on this verse is worthy of notice: “The sinners in Zion are broken down; fear hath seized the ungodly, who are suffering for their ways. They say, Who among us shall dwell in Zion, where the splendor of the Divine Majesty is like a consuming fire?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The sinners - This is spoken of the Jews. The prophet having foretold the deliverance of God's people, and the destruction of their enemies, gives a lively representation of the unbelieving condition, in which the Jews were, before their deliverance came.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Sinners in Zion will have a great deal to answer for above other sinners; and their place in Zion will be so far from being their security that it will aggravate both their sin and their punishment. Now those sinners in Zion, though always subject to secret frights and terrors, were struck with a more than ordinary consternation from the convictions of their own consciences.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
פָּחֲד֤וּ	pa.cha.Du	they are in dread	H6342 →
בְצִיּוֹן֙	ve.tzi.yOn	in Zion	H6726 →
חַטָּאִ֔ים	cha.ta.'Im	sinners	H2400 →
אָחֲזָ֥ה	'a.cha.Zah	it has seized	H270 →
רְעָדָ֖ה	re.'a.Dah	trembling	H7461 →
חֲנֵפִ֑ים	cha.ne.Fim	godless [people]	H2611 →
מִ֣י׀	mi	who?	H4310 →
יָג֣וּר	ya.Gur	will he sojourn	H1481 →
לָ֗נוּ	La.nu	of us
אֵ֚שׁ	'esh	a fire	H784 →
אוֹכֵלָ֔ה	'o.khe.Lah	consuming	H398 →
מִי־	mi-	who?	H4310 →
יָג֥וּר	ya.Gur	will he sojourn	H1481 →
לָ֖נוּ	La.nu	of us
מוֹקְדֵ֥י	mok.Dei	hearths of	H4168 →
עוֹלָֽם׃	o.Lam	perpetuity	H5769 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 25:46
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
leads to
- Daniel 12:2
  And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 21:8
  But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 5:29
  and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Through
Hebrews 12:29
“For our God is a consuming fire.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 4:24
  For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 9:3
  But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate…
- Hebrews 10:27
  but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8
  in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- Isaiah 66:15
  For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah