Isaiah Chapter 33 verse 7 Holy Bible
Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
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See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
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Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the messengers of peace weep bitterly.
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Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
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Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
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Lo, `Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 7-12. - THE PROPHET ENTERS FURTHER INTO PARTICULARS. Having "sketched the main outlines of his revelation," Isaiah proceeds to "fill in and apply the details" (Cheyne). He first describes the despair and low condition of Judah: the men of war wailing aloud; the ambassadors just returned kern Laehish weeping at the ill success of their embassy; all travelling stopped; the land wasted and made a desert; the Assyrians still ravaging and destroying, despite the peace which had been made (2 Kings 18:14-16). Then suddenly he sees Jehovah rousing himself (ver. 10), and the Assyrians con-stoned, as if with a fire (vers. 11, 12). Verse 7. - Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without. "Their lion-hearts "(Cheyne); "heroes" (Delitzsch). Literally, lions of God (comp. Isaiah 29:1). They raise a cry of mourning in the streets, with child-like effusiveness (comp. Herod., 8:99; 9:24). The ambassadors of peace. Hezekiah probably sent several embassies to Sennacherib in the course of the war. One went to Lachish, offering submission, in B.C. 701 (2 Kings 18:14); another to Nineveh, with tribute and presents, in the same or the following year (2 Kings 18:15; comp. 'Eponym Canon,' p. 135). A third probably sought to deprecate Sennacherib's auger, when he made his second invasion (2 Kings 18:17) in B.C. 699 (?). These last would seem to be the "ambassadors" of this verse.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Behold, their valiant ones.--Literally, their lions of God. Heb., Arielam, probably with a reference to the "Ariel" of Isaiah 29:1, the lion-like heroes of the lion-like city. (Comp. 2Samuel 23:20; 1Chronicles 11:22.) The whole passage paints the panic caused by the approach of Sennacherib.The ambassadors of peace.--The envoys sent by Hezekiah to Sennacherib at Lachish. They "weep bitterly" at the hard conditions imposed on them, which may be either those of 2Kings 18:14, or some yet harder terms, demanding the surrender of the city.
