以赛亚书 33:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

大路荒涼，過路的人絕跡；敵人背約，藐視約章，不尊重任何人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
大 路 荒 凉 ， 行 人 止 息 ； 敌 人 背 约 ， 藐 视 城 邑 ， 不 顾 人 民 。

Contextual Overview

¹ How terrible it will be for you who destroy others but have not been destroyed yet. How terrible it will be for you, traitor, whom no one has turned against yet. When you stop destroying, others will destroy you. When you stop turning against others, they will turn against you. ² Lord , be kind to us. We have waited for your help. Give us strength every morning. Save us when we are in trouble. ³ Your powerful voice makes people run away in fear; your greatness causes the nations to run away. ⁴ Like locusts, your enemies will take away the things you stole in war. Like locusts rushing about, they will take your wealth. ⁵ The Lord is very great, and he lives in a high place. He fills Jerusalem with fairness and justice. ⁶ He will be your safety. He is full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. Respect for the Lord is the greatest treasure. ⁷ See, brave people are crying out in the streets; those who tried to bring peace are weeping loudly. ⁸ There is no one on the roads, no one walking in the paths. People have broken the agreements they made. They refuse to believe the proof from witnesses. No one respects other people. ⁹ The land is sick and dying; Lebanon is ashamed and dying. The Plain of Sharon is dry like the desert, and the trees of Bashan and Carmel are dying. ¹⁰ The Lord says, "Now, I will stand up and show my greatness. Now, I will become important to the people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

highways: Isaiah 10:29-31, Judges 5:6, Lamentations 1:4

he hath broken: 2 Kings 18:14-17

he hath despised: Isaiah 10:9-11, Isaiah 36:1, 2 Kings 18:13

he regardeth: Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, 1 Samuel 17:10, 1 Samuel 17:26, 2 Kings 18:20, 2 Kings 18:21, Psalms 10:5, Luke 18:2-4

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:14 - broken Leviticus 26:22 - your high Jeremiah 4:28 - the earth Romans 1:31 - covenantbreakers

Cross-References

Genesis 32:5
I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants. I send this message to you and ask you to accept us.'"

Genesis 33:13
But Jacob said to him, "My master, you know that the children are weak. And I must be careful with my flocks and their young ones. If I force them to go too far in one day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 33:20
He built an altar there and named it after God, the God of Israel.

Genesis 39:5
When Joseph was put in charge of the house and everything Potiphar owned, the Lord blessed the people in Potiphar's house because of Joseph. And the Lord blessed everything that belonged to Potiphar, both in the house and in the field.

Esther 2:17
And the king was pleased with Esther more than with any of the other virgins. He liked her more than any of the others, so he put a royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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", Lamentations 1:4 none daring to attend the ministry of the word and ordinances; see Isaiah 35:8:

the wayfaring man ceaseth; or, "the traveller rests" z; or stops; he does not proceed on his journey; a stop is put to a religious course and conversation; there is an entire cessation of religious worship; a sabbath is kept, but not a religious one; he that would walk in Zion's ways is forbid, and is obliged to sit still:

he hath broken the covenant; some, as Kimchi's father, interpret this of the Jews' complaining that God had broken his covenant with them, as in Psalms 89:39 but most of Sennacherib's breaking his covenant with Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18:14 rather this is to be understood of antichrist, whose doctrine is, that faith is not to be kept with heretics, and which will abundantly appear at this distressing time:

he hath despised the cities; as Sennacherib did the fenced cities of Judah; he despised their fortifications, and easily took them, and treated the inhabitants with disdain and contempt; and so will the reformed Protestant cities and countries be invaded, seized upon, and insulted, by the Romish antichrist:

he regardeth no man; so as to keep covenant with them, have compassion on them, and spare them, he fearing neither God nor man.

z שבת עבר ארח "cessaverat viator", Junius Tremellius "desiit viator", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 public ways were desolate. In the consternation and alarm that was produced by his approach, the roads that had been usually thronged were now solitary and still. A mournful desolation already prevailed, and they apprehended still greater calamities, and hence, they wept.

The wayfaring man ceaseth - Hebrew, ‘He that passes along the road ceases.’ That is, there is a cessation of travel. No one is seen passing along the streets that used to be thronged.

He hath broken the covenant - This may either mean that the Assyrian king had violated the compact which had been made with him by Ahaz, by which he was to come and aid Jerusalem against the allied armies of Syria and Samaria (see the notes at Isaiah 7:0), or it may mean that he had violated an implied compact with Hezekiah. When Judea was threatened with an invasion by Sennacherib, Hezekiah had sent to him when he was at Lachish, and had sought for peace 2 Kings 18:14. In that embassy Hezekiah said, ‘I have offended, return from me; that which thou puttest on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.’ To pay this, Hezekiah exhausted his treasury, and even stripped the temple of its golden ornaments 2 Kings 18:15-16. A compact was thus made by which it was understood that Sennacherib was to withdraw his army, and depart from the land. But notwithstanding this, he still persisted in his purpose, and immediately despatched a part of his army to lay siege to Jerusalem. All the treaties, therefore, had been violated. He had disregarded that which was made with Ahaz, and that which he had now himself made with Hezekiah, and was advancing in violation of all to lay siege to the city.

He hath despised the cities - That is, he disregards their defenses, and their strength; he invades and takes all that comes in his way. He speaks of them with contempt and scorn as being unable to stand before him, or to resist his march. See his vain and confident boasting in Isaiah 10:9; Isaiah 36:19.

He regardeth no man - He spares no one, and he observes no compact with any man.