◄ Isaiah 33:21 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD will show us his glory. We will live beside broad rivers and streams, but hostile ships will not sail on them.

New Revised Standard Version
But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor stately ship can pass.

Contemporary English Version
Our wonderful LORD will be with us! There will be deep rivers and wide streams safe from enemy ships.

New American Bible
Indeed the LORD in majesty will be there for us a place of rivers and wide streams on which no galley may go, where no majestic ship may pass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass through it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass through it.

the glorious

Psalm 29:3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered, The Lord is upon many waters.

Acts 7:2 Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.

2 Corinthians 4:4-6 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. . . .

a place

Psalm 46:4,5 The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle. . . .

broad rivers and streams.

Context
The LORD is Exalted
…20Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed: neither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass through it.22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.…
Cross References
Isaiah 33:17
His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land far off.

Isaiah 41:18
I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.

Isaiah 43:19
Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:20
The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen.

Isaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Isaiah 66:12
For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were a river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts, and upon the knees they shall caress you.

Isaiah 33:20
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