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Isaiah 33:3

Isaiah 33:3
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

At the noise of the tumult the people fled,.... The Vulgate Latin Version renders it, "at the voice of the angel"; and Jerom reports it as the opinion of the Jews, that it was Gabriel; and many…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 33:1-12

Here we have,

I. The proud and false Assyrian justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence, and laid under a woe, Isa 33:1. Observe, 1. The sin which the enemy had been guilty of. He had…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Isaiah 33:3-4

Assurance of Jehovah's victory, founded on the great deliverances of the past. The perfects in Isa 33:33 may be either those of experience, expressing a general truth often verified in history, or of…