Isaiah 33:20 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 33:20

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

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ASV

Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Look upon Zion,.... Instead of such terrible objects as before described, a very amiable and lovely one is presented to view; even Zion, the church of God, beloved by him, chosen for his habitation, a strong city, a perfection of beauty, and the joy of the whole earth. The Targum is, "O Zion, thou shalt see their fall;'' the fall of her enemies before mentioned; as at this time the church will see the fall both of the eastern and western antichrist.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Look upon - Contemplate Zion's glorious and peculiar privileges. Solemnities - This was the chief part of Zion's glory, that God was solemnly worshipped, and the solemn assemblies and feasts kept in her. Quiet - This was but imperfectly fulfilled in the literal Zion; but clearly and fully in the mystical Zion, the church of God, in the times of the gospel.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God's church on earth is a tabernacle, which, though it may be shifted from one place to another, shall not be taken down while the world stands; for in every age Christ will have a seed to serve him. The promises of the covenant are its stakes, which shall never be removed, and the ordinances and institutions of the gospel are its cords, which shall never be broken.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Look upon Zion “Thou shalt see Zion” - For חזה chazeh, “see,” read תחזה techezeh, “thou shalt see,” with the Chaldee. - Houbigant. At the end of this verse we find in the Masoretic Bibles this note, חצי הספר chatsi hassepher, “the middle of the book;” that is the middle of the book of Isaiah.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The saints, who sojourned once in tabernacles as pilgrims, shall have a "building of God--eternal in the heavens" (2Co 5:1; Heb 11:9, 10; compare Isa 54:2). stakes--driven into the ground; to these the "cords" were fastened. Christ's Church shall never fall (Mt 16:18).

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חֲזֵ֣ה	cha.Zeh	see	H2372 →
צִיּ֔וֹן	tzi.Yon	Zion	H6726 →
קִרְיַ֖ת	kir.Yat	[the] town of	H7151 →
מֽוֹעֲדֵ֑נוּ	mo.'a.De.nu	appointed feast our	H4150 →
עֵינֶיךָ֩	'ei.nei.Kha	eyes your	H5869 →
תִרְאֶ֨ינָה	tir.'Ei.nah	they will see	H7200 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →
נָוֶ֣ה	na.Veh	a habitation	H5116 →
שַׁאֲנָ֗ן	sha.'a.Nan	undisturbed	H7600 →
אֹ֤הֶל	'O.hel	a tent	H168 →
בַּל־	bal-	[which] not	H1077 →
יִצְעָן֙	yitz.'An	anyone will pack up	H6813 →
בַּל־	bal-	[which] not	H1077 →
יִסַּ֤ע	yi.Sa'	anyone will pull out	H5265 →
יְתֵֽדֹתָיו֙	ye.te.do.Tav	tent pegs its	H3489 →
לָנֶ֔צַח	la.Ne.tzach	to perpetuity	H5331 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
חֲבָלָ֖יו	cha.va.Lav	ropes its	H2256 →
בַּל־	bal-	not	H1077 →
יִנָּתֵֽקוּ׃	yi.na.Te.ku	they will be torn apart	H5423 →

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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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
Psalms 46:5
God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
leads to
- Zechariah 2:5
  For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joel 2:27
  Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
- Zephaniah 3:15
  The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
- Zechariah 2:10–11
  “Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 43:7
  and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house…
Through
Revelation 3:12
The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the…
leads to
- Revelation 22:4
  They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
- Revelation 21:2
  I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Revelation 14:1
  Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah