Isa 33:15-17 | JFB | STEP | 15. In contrast to the trembling "sinners in Zion" ( ), the righteous shall be secure amid all judgments; they are described according to the Old Testament standpoint of righteousness ( ; ). stoppeth ... ears ... eyes-- "Rejoiceth not in iniquity" ( ; contrast ; ; ). The senses are avenues for the entrance of sin ( ).

‏ Isaiah 33:15-17

15. In contrast to the trembling "sinners in Zion" (Is 33:14), the righteous shall be secure amid all judgments; they are described according to the Old Testament standpoint of righteousness (Psa 15:2; 24:4).

stoppeth ... ears ... eyes--"Rejoiceth not in iniquity" (1Co 13:6; contrast Is 29:20; Psa 10:3; Ro 1:32). The senses are avenues for the entrance of sin (Psa 119:37).

16. on high--heights inaccessible to the foe (Is 26:1).

bread ... waters--image from the expected siege by Sennacherib; however besieged by trials without, the godly shall have literal and spiritual food, as God sees good for them (Is 41:17; Psa 37:25; 34:10; 132:15).

17. Thine--the saints'.

king in ... beauty--not as now, Hezekiah in sackcloth, oppressed by the enemy, but King Messiah (Is 32:1) "in His beauty" (So 5:10, 16; Re 4:3).

land ... very far off--rather, "the land in its remotest extent" (no longer pent up as Hezekiah was with the siege); see Margin. For Jerusalem is made the scene of the king's glory (Is 33:20, &c.), and it could not be said to be "very far off," unless the far-off land be heaven, the Jerusalem above, which is to follow the earthly reign of Messiah at literal Jerusalem (Is 65:17-19; Jr 3:17; Re 21:1, 2, 10).