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Isaiah
33
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Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed. See also: Matthew 7:2Isaiah 24:16Revelation 17:17LORD, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. See also: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4Isaiah 30:18-19Isaiah 59:16At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. See also: Isaiah 10:13-14Isaiah 17:12-14Isaiah 37:11-18Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap. See also: Isaiah 33:232 Chronicles 14:132 Chronicles 20:25The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. See also: Isaiah 2:17Romans 11:26Revelation 19:2-6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is your treasure. See also: Psalms 112:1-3Proverbs 19:231 Timothy 4:8Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. See also: Isaiah 36:222 Kings 18:372 Kings 18:18The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man. See also: Judges 5:6Isaiah 35:8Luke 18:2-4The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare. See also: Isaiah 35:2Nahum 1:4Isaiah 65:10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted. See also: Psalms 12:5Psalms 102:13-18Amos 6:1You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you. See also: Isaiah 59:4Psalms 7:14James 1:15The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire. See also: 2 Samuel 23:6-7Isaiah 27:4Isaiah 9:18Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.” See also: Ephesians 2:11-18Psalms 48:10Daniel 3:27The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning? See also: Hebrews 12:29Isaiah 66:24Matthew 25:46He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil— See also: Psalms 119:371 John 3:7Ephesians 5:11-13he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure. See also: Luke 12:29-31Isaiah 32:18Isaiah 49:10Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land. See also: Zechariah 9:171 John 3:22 Corinthians 4:18Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers? See also: 1 Corinthians 1:20Isaiah 38:9-221 Samuel 25:33-36You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand. See also: Isaiah 28:11Deuteronomy 28:49-50Jeremiah 5:15Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken. See also: Psalms 46:5Isaiah 54:2Isaiah 32:18But there the LORD will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there. See also: Psalms 46:4-5Isaiah 48:18Isaiah 41:18For the LORD is our judge. The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us. See also: Acts 5:31James 4:12Zephaniah 3:15-17Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey. See also: 2 Kings 7:8Psalms 68:121 Corinthians 1:27The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity. See also: Jeremiah 50:20Revelation 21:4Exodus 15:26
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 33:1
Ver. 1. Spoilest. This is particularly directed to Sennacherib. Ch. --- He was a figure of persecutors of the Church, to which many passages here allude. C. ---
Remotâ justitiâ quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? S. Aug. de Civ. Dei. iv. 4.
--- Sennacherib plundered Samaria and Juda, and despising God, was himself contemned. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 33:2
Ver. 2. Morning. Speedily. Heb. "mornings," or every day. Ezechias thus addressed God.
↑ 2Isaiah 33:4
Ver. 4. Them. The neglect of burying these insects has often brought on the plague. S. Aug. de Civ. Dei. iii. 31.
↑ 4Isaiah 33:6
Ver. 6. Faith. Sincerity and justice adorn the reigns of Ezechias and Christ.
↑ 6Isaiah 33:7
Ver. 7. Without. The people of the country, and the envoys of Ezechias. 4 K.
xviii. 14. Heb.
"Behold their Ariel, cried they without," insultingly, (C.) pointing at Jerusalem.
C. xxix. 1. At which (H.) the envoys rent their garments, &c. C. xxxvi. 22. C. ---
"Behold I shall appear to them." Aquila. S. Jer. --- Angels. Messengers or deputies sent to negotiate a peace, (Ch.) who wept because they could not obtain it. W.
↑ 7Isaiah 33:8
Ver. 8. Void, though Sennacherib had received what he demanded. 4 K. xviii.
14.
↑ 8Isaiah 33:9
Ver. 9. Confounded. Its trees were cut down. C. xxxvii. 24.
↑ 9Isaiah 33:10
Ver. 10. Myself, when all human aid fails.
↑ 10Isaiah 33:11
Ver. 11. You, Assyrians, are bringing destruction upon yourselves. C.
↑ 11Isaiah 33:14
Ver. 14. Of you. Heb. "of us." H. --- They are seriously alarmed at the sight of the fires prepared to burn the dead bodies of the Assyrians, (C. xxx. 33.) and begin to think of hell, (C.) which their sins deserve. H.
↑ 14Isaiah 33:15
Ver. 15. Blood. Avoiding revenge, and punishing the guilty, without respect to persons. Such was Ezechias, and therefore his enemies could not hurt him.
↑ 15Isaiah 33:16
Ver. 16. Sure. Never failing. C. --- This was a great advantage in those dry regions. H.
↑ 16Isaiah 33:17
Ver. 17. King Ezechias, or he shall be one of his courtiers. --- Off. Their limits shall be extended.
Those who believe in Christ, shall cast their eyes up towards their heavenly country. Heb. ix. 13.
↑ 17Isaiah 33:18
Ver. 18. Ones. These questions were put by the people, when the enemy approached; or they now rejoice that their severe masters were gone.
↑ 18Isaiah 33:19
Ver. 19. Shameless, unjust Assyrians. Lu. xviii. 2. When shame is gone, people give way to every excess. --- Profound. Unknown to the Jews. 4 K. xviii. 26. ---
No wisdom, manners, or piety.
↑ 19Isaiah 33:20
Ver. 20. Broken. It was taken 125 years afterwards. The Church remains till the end of time, (C.) whereas both the prophets and history assure us, that Jerusalem was subject to destruction.
W.
↑ 20Isaiah 33:21
Ver. 21. Of rivers. He speaks of the rivers of endless joys that flow from the throne of God to water the heavenly Jerusalem, like a deep river. C.
↑ 21Isaiah 33:23
Ver. 23. Thy tacklings. He speaks of the enemies of the Church, under the allegory of a ship that is disabled. Ch. --- Sennacherib shall attempt invasion no more than a ship without masts would put to sea.
↑ 23Isaiah 33:24
Ver. 24. Feeble. All were obliged to collect the plunder, to be afterwards divided. None shall plead illness. The inhabitants of Jerusalem will not feel the effects of sin (C.) on this occasion.
H.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses