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Sagradas Escrituras
Isaías 33:8
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Las calzadas están desiertas, el transeúnte ya no pasa; ha quebrantado el pacto, ha despreciado las ciudades, no tiene en estima al hombre.
Las calzadas estn desechas, cesaron los caminantes: anulado ha la alianza, aborreci las ciudades, tuvo en nada los hombres.
Las calzadas estn desiertas, cesaron los caminantes; l ha anulado el pacto, ha aborrecido las ciudades, tuvo en nada a los hombres.
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
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.
