Isaiah 33:8

The highways lie waste,.... No man walking in them, for fear of the enemy; "the ways of Zion", which are said to "mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts", Lam 1:4 none daring to attend the…

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…

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…

The highways lie waste … ceaseth cf. Jdg 5:6.

he hath broken the covenant See on Isa 33:33.

he hath despised the cities For -ârîm(cities) Duhm proposes to read -çdîm(witnesses), i.e. the witnesses to…