Isaiah 33:3
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Isaiah 33:3 in other translations
| BSB | The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise. |
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| WEB | At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. |
| ASV | At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered. |
| YLT | From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations. |
| DARBY | At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. |
| BBE | At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions. |
| Webster | At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. |
What does Isaiah 33:3 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 33:1-14
God's judgments against the enemies of his church. (Is. 33:1-14) The happiness of his people. (Is. 33:15-24) Verses 1-14 Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own coin. Those who by faith humbly wait for God, shall find him gracious to them; as the day, so let the strength be. If God leaves us to ourselves any…
Isaiah 33:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 33:3
- Isaiah 10:13-14
For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
- Isaiah 10:32-34
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
- Isaiah 37:11-18
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. …
- Isaiah 59:16-18
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
- Psalms 46:6
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
- Isaiah 17:12-14
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
- Isaiah 37:29-36
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this. …
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Context
- Isaiah 33:2
O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
- Isaiah 33:3
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
- Isaiah 33:4
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Isaiah 33:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los pueblos huyeron á la voz del estruendo; las gentes fueron esparcidas por tus levantamientos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | À la voix du tumulte, les peuples s’enfuirent: quand tu t’es élevé, les nations ont été dispersées. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vor dem Brausen deines Getümmels entfliehen die Völker, vor deiner Erhebung zerstreuen sich die Nationen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | A voce angeli fugerunt populi, et ab exaltatione tua dispersæ sunt gentes. |