Isaiah 33:8 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 33:8

The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

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ASV

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: the enemy hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.

KJV

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The highways lie waste - This verse contains a description of the desolations that had been caused by the invasion of Sennacherib. Some have understood it as containing the account which the ambassadors sent by Hezekiah gave of the effects of the invasion. Thus Grotius interprets it. But it is probably a description made by the prophet himself, and is designed to state one cause why the messengers that had been sent out wept bitterly. They had not only failed of inducing Sennacherib to abandon his purpose of attacking Jerusalem, but they had witnessed the effects of his invasion already.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The covenant - Sennacherib broke his faith, given to Hezekiah, of departing for a sum of money, 2 Kings xviii, 14, 17. Cities - The defensed cities of Judah, which he contemned, and easily took.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He makes himself master of them so easily (though they are called fenced cities ), and meets with so little resistance, that he despises them, and has no relentings when he puts all to the sword; for he regards no man, has no pity or concern, no, not for those that he is under particular obligations to.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

From the vision of future glory Isaiah returns to the disastrous present; the grief of "the valiant ones" (parallel to, and identical with, "the ambassadors of peace"), men of rank, sent with presents to sue for peace, but standing "without" the enemy's camp, their suit being rejected (2Ki 18:14, 18, 37).

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
נָשַׁ֣מּוּ	na.Sha.mu	they have been made desolate	H8074 →
מְסִלּ֔וֹת	me.si.Lot	highways	H4546 →
שָׁבַ֖ת	sha.Vat	he has ceased	H7673 →
עֹבֵ֣ר	'o.Ver	[one who] passes by of	H5674 →
אֹ֑רַח	'O.rach	a path	H734 →
הֵפֵ֤ר	he.Fer	someone has broken	H6565 →
בְּרִית֙	be.Rit	a covenant	H1285 →
מָאַ֣ס	ma.'As	someone has rejected	H3988 →
עָרִ֔ים	'a.Rim	cities	H5892 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
חָשַׁ֖ב	cha.Shav	anyone has valued	H2803 →
אֱנֽוֹשׁ׃	'e.No.osh	humankind	H582 →

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
Isaiah 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.
leads to
- Matthew 7:13–14
  Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- Isaiah 42:16
  I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These…
- John 14:6
  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- 1 Peter 1:14–15
  As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
- Revelation 21:27
  But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Through
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.
leads to
- Judges 3:31
  After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
Through
Lamentations 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.
leads to
- Jeremiah 9:11
  “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Joel 1:8–13
  Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah