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American Standard Version

Isaiah 33:17

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   God;   Heaven;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Righteousness;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blindness-Vision;   Heavenly;   Seeing God;   Vision;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ, the King;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beauty;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - House;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jacob;   Messiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hezekiah (2);   Isaiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holiness;   Me'asha;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 31;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your eyes will see the King in his beauty;you will see a vast land.
Hebrew Names Version
Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.
King James Version
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
English Standard Version
Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
New American Standard Bible
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see a distant land.
New Century Version
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. You will see the land that stretches far away.
Amplified Bible
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see a far-distant land.
World English Bible
Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thine eyes shall see the King in his glory: they shall beholde the lande farre off.
Legacy Standard Bible
Your eyes will behold the King in His beauty;They will see a far‑distant land.
Berean Standard Bible
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.
Contemporary English Version
With your own eyes you will see the glorious King; you will see his kingdom reaching far and wide.
Complete Jewish Bible
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty, they will gaze on a land stretching into the distance.
Darby Translation
Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is far off.
Easy-to-Read Version
Your eyes will see the King in his beauty. You will see the great land.
George Lamsa Translation
Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold the lands that are far off.
Good News Translation
Once again you will see a king ruling in splendor over a land that stretches in all directions.
Lexham English Bible
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see a distant land.
Literal Translation
Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall see a land that is very far off.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His eyes shal se the kynge in his glory: & in the wyde worlde,
Bible in Basic English
Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.
King James Version (1611)
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very farre off.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thine eyes shall see the kyng in his glorie, euen the kyng of the farre countreys shall they see.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall see a king with glory: your eyes shall behold a land from afar.
English Revised Version
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a far stretching land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei schulen se the kyng in his fairnesse; the iyen of hym schulen biholde the londe fro fer.
Update Bible Version
Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall look at a land that reaches far.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thy eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
New English Translation
You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.
New King James Version
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see the land that is very far off.
New Living Translation
Your eyes will see the king in all his splendor, and you will see a land that stretches into the distance.
New Life Bible
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty. They will see a land that is far away.
New Revised Standard
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold a land that stretches far away.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of a king, in his beauty, shall thine eyes have vision: They shall see a land that stretcheth afar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land far off.
Revised Standard Version
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold a land that stretches afar.
Young's Literal Translation
A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.
THE MESSAGE
Oh, you'll see the king—a beautiful sight! And you'll take in the wide vistas of land. In your mind you'll go over the old terrors: "What happened to that Assyrian inspector who condemned and confiscated? And the one who gouged us of taxes? And that cheating moneychanger?" Gone! Out of sight forever! Their insolence nothing now but a fading stain on the carpet! No more putting up with a language you can't understand, no more sounds of gibberish in your ears.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will behold a far-distant land.

Contextual Overview

13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil: 16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar. 18 Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed the tribute? where is he that counted the towers? 19 Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21 But there Jehovah will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 22 For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eyes: Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 32:2, Isaiah 37:1, 2 Chronicles 32:23, Psalms 45:2, Song of Solomon 5:10, Zechariah 9:17, Matthew 17:2, John 1:14, John 14:21, John 17:24, 1 John 3:2

that is very far off: Heb. of far distances, Psalms 31:8, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Hebrews 11:13-15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:49 - and behold Isaiah 6:5 - mine eyes Matthew 17:4 - it is Mark 9:2 - transfigured Luke 9:29 - General Revelation 22:4 - they

Cross-References

Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.
Exodus 13:20
And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
Joshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border thereof, unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
Judges 8:5
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
Judges 8:8
And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
Judges 8:14
And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men.
Judges 8:16
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
1 Kings 7:46
In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
Psalms 60:6
God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty,.... Not merely Hezekiah in his royal robes, and with a cheerful countenance, having put off his sackcloth and his sadness, upon the breaking up of the siege; but a greater than he, even the King Messiah, in the glory of his person and office, especially as a King reigning gloriously before his ancients in Jerusalem: the apostles saw him in his glory, in the days of his flesh, corporeally and spiritually; believers now see him by faith, crowded with glory and honour, as well as see his beauty, fulness, and suitableness, as a Saviour; and, before long, their eyes shall see him personally in his own and his Father's glory. This is to be understood of the eyes of good men, before described. The Targum is,

"thine eyes shall see the glory of the Majesty of the King of worlds in his praise;''

and Jarchi interprets it of the glory of the Majesty of God; so, according to both, a divine Person is meant, and indeed no other than Christ:

they shall behold the land that is very far off; not the land of hell, as the Targum, which paraphrases it thus;

"thou shalt behold and see those that go down into the land of hell;''

but rather the heavenly country, the better one, the land of uprightness, typified by the land of Canaan; and may be said to be "a land afar off", with respect to the earth on which the saints now are, and with regard to the present sight of it, which is a distant one, and will be always afar off to wicked men; this now the saints have at times a view of by faith, which is very delightful, and greatly supports them under their present trials: though it may be that an enlargement of Christ's kingdom all over the world, to the distant parts of it, may be here meant; which may be called, as the words may be rendered, "a land of distances", or "of far distances" d; that reaches far and near, from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth; which will be the case when the kingdoms of this world shall become Christ's, and the kingdom, and the greatness of it under the whole heaven, shall be given to the saints of the most High; a glorious sight this will be. And this sense agrees with the context, and declares what will be after the destruction of antichrist.

d ארץ מרחקים "terram distantiarum", Vatablus, Montanus, Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thine eyes - The eyes of the righteous, described in Isaiah 33:15.

Shall see the king in his beauty - Some understand this of the Assyrian king. Thus Kimchi understands it, and supposes it means that they shall see him at the walls of Jerusalem; that is, shall see him destroyed. Vitringa supposes it means Yahweh himself as the king of his people, and that they should see him in his glory. Others suppose it relates to the Messiah. But the immediate connection requires us to understand it of Hezekiah (compare the note at Isaiah 32:1-2). The sense is, ‘You shall be defended from the hostile army of the Assyrian. You shall be permitted to live under the peaceful and prosperous reign of your pious monarch, and shall see him, not with diminished territory and resources, but with the appropriate magnificence which becomes a monarch of Israel.’

The land that is very far off - You shall be permitted to look to the remotest part of the land of Judea as delivered from enemies, and as still under the happy scepter of your king. You shall not be confined by a siege, and straitened within the narrow walls of Jerusalem. The empire of Hezekiah shall be extended over the wide dominions that appropriately belong to him, and you shall be permitted to range freely over the whole land, even over the parts that are now occupied by the forces of the Assyrian. Virgil has a beautiful passage remarkably similar to this:

- jurat ire, et Dorica castra,

Desertosque videre locos, litusque relicturn.

AEn. ii. 28.


 
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