Isaiah 33:9

Isaiah 33:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
• New International Version (NIV)The land dries up and wastes away, Lebanon is ashamed and withers; Sharon is like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is shamed and shriveled; Sharon is like a wilderness, And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Context of Isaiah 33:9

7Behold, their brave men cry out in the streets, The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. 8The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, He has no regard for mankind. The land mourns and wastes away, Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a desert plain, And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage. 10“Now I will arise,” says the Lord, “Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up. 11You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.

Isaiah 33:9 word by word

אָבַ֤ל אֻמְלְלָה֙ אָ֔רֶץ הֶחְפִּ֥יר לְבָנ֖וֹן קָמַ֑ל הָיָ֤ה הַשָּׁרוֹן֙ כָּֽעֲרָבָ֔ה וְנֹעֵ֥ר בָּשָׁ֖ן וְכַרְמֶֽל׃Read the interlinear

• The landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• mournsאָבַל'âbal · to mournH56
• wastesאָמַל'âmal · be weakH535
• Lebanonלְבָנוֹןlebânôn · LebanonH3844
• is shamedחָפֵרchâphêr · be ashamedH2659
• withersקָמֵלqâmal · to decayH7060
• Sharonשָׁרוֹןshârôn · SharonH8289
• is like a desertעֲרָבָה‛ărâbâh · ArabahH6160
• plainעֲרָבָה‛ărâbâh · ArabahH6160
• And Bashanבָּשָׁןbâshân · BashanH1316
• and Carmelכַּרְמֶלkarmel · CarmelH3760
• loseנָעַרnâ‛ar · to shakeH5287

Cross-references for Isaiah 33:9

• Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.
• Jeremiah 4:20Disaster upon disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, And my curtains in an instant.
• Isaiah 14:8Even the juniper trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you have been laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’
• Isaiah 37:24Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice junipers. And I will come to its highest peak, its thickest forest.
• Zechariah 11:1Open your doors, Lebanon, So that a fire may feed on your cedars.
• Isaiah 35:2It will blossom profusely And rejoice with joy and jubilation. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, The majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the Lord, The majesty of our God.
• Isaiah 65:10Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks, And the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, For My people who seek Me.
• Deuteronomy 3:4We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
• Jeremiah 50:19And I will bring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his desire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
• Micah 7:14Shepherd Your people with Your scepter, The flock of Your possession Which lives by itself in the woodland, In the midst of a fruitful field. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead As in the days of old.
• Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, The blossoms of Lebanon wither.

Commentaries on Isaiah 33:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits "Bashan and Carmel are stripped of their beauty" - , made manifest. Sept. They read ונערה veneerah .Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9The earth mourneth - The land through which he has passed. For the sense of this phrase, see the note at Isaiah 24:4. Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down - For the situation of Lebanon, see the note at Isaiah 10:34. Lebanon was distinguished for its ornaments of beautiful cedars. Here iris represented as being stript of these ornaments, and as covered with shame on that account. There is not any direct historical evidence that Sennacherib had advanced to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9Sharon, Bashan, and Carmel were all fertile areas. Their desolation represents the destruction Assyria had caused in Israel.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-97-9. From the vision of future glory Isaiah returns to the disastrous present; the grief of "the valiant ones" (parallel to, and identical with, "the ambassadors of peace"), men of rank, sent with presents to sue for peace, but standing "without" the enemy's camp, their suit being rejected (2Ki 18:14, 18, 37). The highways deserted through fear, the cities insulted, the lands devastated. cry--(Is 15:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 33:9

• Bashan
• Carmel
• Sharon
• War

In the dictionaries

• Bashan
• Carmel
• Lebanon
• Sharon
• Carmel, Mount Carmel
• Sharon, Plain of Sharon
• Acknowledge
• Deep
• Fearfulness
• Fire

Commentaries on Isaiah 33

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings