Isaiah 33:3
The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.
BSB
ASV
At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.
KJV
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
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.
When God did thus lift up himself the several nations, or clans, of which the army was composed, were scattered. It was time to stir when such an unprecedented plague broke out among them. When God arises his enemies are scattered, Ps. lxviii.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
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 46:6Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
leads to
The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
