Isaiah 33:17

Bible in Basic English

Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.

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,

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

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 Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near. ¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings? ¹⁵ He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil; ¹⁶ He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain. ¹⁷ Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land. ¹⁸ Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered? ¹⁹ Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you. ²⁰ Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken. ²¹ But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing. ²² For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.

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 made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

Exodus 13:20
Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land.

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, having Jordan for its limit, to the end of the sea of Chinnereth on the east side of Jordan.

Judges 8:5
And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

Judges 8:8
So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.

Judges 8:14
And taking prisoner a young man of the people of Succoth, he got from him, in answer to his questions, a list of the chiefs of Succoth and the responsible men, seventy-seven men.

Judges 8:16
Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.

1 Kings 7:46
He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan.

Psalms 60:6
God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.

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.