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Isaiah 33:8

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Isaiah 33:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 33:8

Theological / Devotional

The highways lie waste. The roads of Judah were no longer open for travel. The army of Sennacherib had reduced the country to such straits that men no longer dared travel by the highways.

Cities. Dead Sea scroll 1QIs reads ‘edim, “witnesses,” for ‘irim, “cities,” the only difference in the consonantal text being between the d and the r (see Vol. I, p. 26; see on Gen. 10:4).

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