Isaiah Chapter 33 verse 17 Holy Bible
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar.
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Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.
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Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is far off.
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Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
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Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.
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A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.
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Isaiah 33 : 17 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Thine eyes. Another transition. Here from the third person to the second, the prophet now addressing those righteous ones of whom he has been speaking in the two preceding verses. Shall see the King in his beauty. The Messianic King, whoever he might be, and whenever he might make his appearance. It has been said that beauty is not predicated of the heavenly King (Cheyne); but Zechariah 9:17; Psalm 45:2; and Canticles, passim, contradict this assertion. "How great is his beauty;" "Thou art fairer than the children of men;" "His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely." The land that is very far off; literally, the land of far distances. Bishop Lowth renders, "Thine own land far extended," and so Delitzsch and Mr. Cheyne. But if "the King" is Messianic, so doubtless is "the land" - the world-wide tract over which Messiah will reign (Revelation 21:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty . . .--Torn from their context, the words have been not unfitly used to describe the beatific vision of the saints of God in the far-off land of heaven. So the Targum gives "Thine eyes shall see the Shekinah of the King of Ages." Their primary meaning is, however, obviously historical. The "king" is Hezekiah, who shall be seen no longer in sackcloth and ashes, and with downcast eyes (Isaiah 37:1), but in all the "beauty" of triumph and of majesty, of a youth and health renewed like the eagle; and the "land that is very far off" is the whole land of Israel, all prosperous and peaceful, as contrasted with the narrow range of view which the people had had during the siege, pent up within the walls of Jerusalem. (Comp. Genesis 13:14-15.) Comp. as to form, Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 30:20.