Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 33:20

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Isaiah 33:20

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Isaiah 33:20

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." — Isaiah 33:20 (ASV)

Look upon Zion ... —The words sound like an echo of Psalm 46 and Psalm 48, which were probably written by the sons of Korah on the destruction of Sennacherib’s army. Men had seen Zion desecrated by Ahaz, besieged by Sennacherib; now they should see it once again as it had been at the beginning of Hezekiah’s reign, emphatically a city of solemnities, a tent that shall not be removed, the latter words probably referring to Sennacherib’s threat of deportation (Isaiah 36:17).