Isaiah 33:5
 Isaiah 33:5 
New International Version (©2011)
The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with his justice and righteousness.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Though the LORD is very great and lives in heaven, he will make Jerusalem his home of justice and righteousness.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"The LORD is exalted, for he lives on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD is exalted, indeed, he lives in heaven; he fills Zion with justice and fairness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD is honored because he lives on high. He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The LORD is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

American King James Version
The LORD is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

American Standard Version
Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath filled Sion with judgment and justice.

Darby Bible Translation
Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness;

English Revised Version
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

World English Bible
Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Young's Literal Translation
Set on high is Jehovah, for He is dwelling on high, He filled Zion with judgment and righteousness,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

33:1-14 Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own coin. Those who by faith humbly wait for God, shall find him gracious to them; as the day, so let the strength be. If God leaves us to ourselves any morning, we are undone; we must every morning commit ourselves to him, and go forth in his strength to do the work of the day. When God arises, his enemies are scattered. True wisdom and knowledge lead to strength of salvation, which renders us stedfast in the ways of God; and true piety is the only treasure which can never be plundered or spent. The distress Jerusalem was brought into, is described. God's time to appear for his people, is, when all other helpers fail. Let all who hear what God has done, acknowledge that he can do every thing. Sinners in Zion will have much to answer for, above other sinners. And those that rebel against the commands of the word, cannot take its comforts in time of need. His wrath will burn those everlastingly who make themselves fuel for it. It is a fire that shall never be quenched, nor ever go out of itself; it is the wrath of an ever-living God preying on the conscience of a never-dying soul.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - The Lord is exalted. His destruction of the Assyrian host is an exaltation of God; i.e. it causes him to be exalted in the thoughts of those who have cognizance of the fact (comp. Exodus 15:14-16; Psalm 96:3-10, etc.). It is an indication to them that he has his dwelling on high, and is the true King of heaven. He hath filled Zion with judgment, etc. (comp. Isaiah 32:15-17). The destruction is, in part, the result, in part the cause, of the Jews once more turning to God, putting away their iniquities, and establishing the reign of justice and righteousness in the land (see Isaiah 1:26).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord is exalted,.... These are the words of the church, or of true believers, setting the praise and glory of God, on account of the victory and spoil of their enemies; by which the Lord is exalted, magnified, and honoured, as he will be in the hearts and mouths of his people when these times shall come; see Revelation 11:15 this will be true of Christ, and indeed this will be the time when he, and he alone, shall be exalted, Isaiah 2:17,

for he dwelleth on high; in the highest heaven, and is above his greatest enemies, and can, and will, pour down his wrath and vengeance on them:

he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness; the church of God, where Christ her King will reign in righteousness, and when all the administrations of his kingly power and government will appear to be just and true; where his word shall be faithfully preached, and his ordinances duly administered; and when all his subjects and people shall be righteous, and live soberly and righteously. The Targum is,

"with those that do true judgment and righteousness.''


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The Lord is Exalted
4And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run on them. 5The LORD is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. 6And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure. …

Psalm 97:9 For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
Isaiah 1:26 I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City."
Isaiah 5:16 But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.
Isaiah 26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
Isaiah 28:6 He will be a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isaiah 30:18 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 32:16 The LORD's justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field.
Isaiah 33:4 Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.
Isaiah 56:1 This is what the LORD says: "Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
Isaiah 57:15 For this is what the high and exalted One says-- he who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.