Isaiah 33:24 Study Bible: The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick." The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.

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And no resident of Zion will say, "I am sick." The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

And no resident of Zion
The term "Zion" is deeply significant in biblical literature, often symbolizing the city of Jerusalem, the dwelling place of God, and the spiritual heart of Israel. In Hebrew, "Zion" (צִיּוֹן, Tziyon) conveys a sense of fortification and divine presence. Historically, Zion represents the hope and future restoration of God's people. This phrase suggests a future time of peace and divine favor, where the inhabitants of Zion are under God's protection and blessing.

will say, 'I am sick.'
The Hebrew word for "sick" (חָלָה, chalah) can imply physical illness or weakness. In the context of Isaiah, this phrase indicates a future era of divine healing and restoration. The absence of sickness symbolizes the complete well-being and wholeness that comes from living in God's presence. This reflects the eschatological hope of a time when God will remove all suffering and pain from His people.

The people who dwell there
This phrase emphasizes the community aspect of God's promise. "The people" (עַם, am) refers to the covenant community of Israel, those who are in a relationship with God. "Dwell" (יָשַׁב, yashav) implies a settled, secure, and permanent residence. It suggests a future where God's people are firmly established in His promises, living in peace and security.

will be forgiven of iniquity
Forgiveness is a central theme in the Bible, and the Hebrew word for "forgiven" (נָשָׂא, nasa) means to lift, carry, or take away. "Iniquity" (עָוֹן, avon) refers to moral perversity or sin. This phrase highlights the transformative power of God's grace, where He removes the burden of sin from His people. It points to the ultimate redemption and purification that God offers, a theme fulfilled in the New Testament through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This promise of forgiveness is foundational to the Christian faith, offering hope and assurance of God's mercy and love.

Persons / Places / Events

1. Zion
Often used to refer to Jerusalem, Zion is a symbol of God's holy city and His chosen people. It represents a place of divine presence and future hope.

2. Residents of Zion
These are the people who dwell in Zion, symbolizing those who are part of God's covenant community.

3. Forgiveness of Iniquity
This event signifies God's grace and mercy, where He pardons the sins of His people, offering them spiritual healing and restoration.

Teaching Points

Divine Healing and Restoration
God promises both physical and spiritual healing to His people. This reflects His comprehensive care for our well-being.

The Assurance of Forgiveness
The forgiveness of iniquity is a central theme, reminding us of the grace available through faith in God. It assures believers of their restored relationship with Him.

Living in the Hope of Zion
As believers, we are called to live with the hope of Zion, looking forward to the ultimate fulfillment of God's promises in the new creation.

The Role of Faith in Healing
Faith plays a crucial role in experiencing God's healing and forgiveness. Trusting in His promises is essential for spiritual growth and renewal.

Bible Study Questions

1. How does the promise of no sickness in Zion encourage you in your current life circumstances?

2. In what ways can the assurance of forgiveness impact your daily walk with God?

3. How do the themes of healing and forgiveness in Isaiah 33:24 connect with the New Testament teachings on salvation through Christ?

4. What practical steps can you take to live in the hope and assurance of God's promises as described in this verse?

5. How can you share the message of God's healing and forgiveness with others in your community?

Connections to Other Scriptures

Psalm 103:3
This verse speaks of God who forgives all iniquities and heals all diseases, paralleling the promise of healing and forgiveness in Isaiah 33:24.

Jeremiah 31:34
This passage highlights the new covenant where God promises to forgive iniquity and remember sins no more, echoing the theme of divine forgiveness in Isaiah.

Revelation 21:4
This verse describes a future where there is no more pain or sickness, aligning with the promise that no resident of Zion will say, "I am sick."

Sermons

Forgiveness	J. H. Jowett, M. A.	Isaiah 33:24
Forgiveness and Healing		Isaiah 33:24
Healing and Pardon		Isaiah 33:24
No More Sickness	R. Tuck	Isaiah 33:24
Nobody is Quite Well	Quiver.	Isaiah 33:24
Pardon Does not Involve Immediate Deliverance from All Ev	Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.	Isaiah 33:24
Sickness and Sin	D. Fraser, D. D.	Isaiah 33:24
The Bliss of Heaven	J. Jowett, M. A.	Isaiah 33:24
The Reign of Hezekiah	E. Johnson	Isaiah 33:17-24
Happy Times	W. Clarkson	Isaiah 33:18-24
God's Promises to His Church	Archbishop Thomson.	Isaiah 33:20-24
Isaiah's Imagery	Sir E. Strachey, Bart.	Isaiah 33:20-24
Jerusalem Imperilled Yet Secure		Isaiah 33:20-24
The Church of God		Isaiah 33:20-24
The Privileges and Stability of the Church	T. Spencer.	Isaiah 33:20-24

People

Ariel, Isaiah

Places

Bashan, Carmel, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Sharon, Zion

Topics

Dwell, Dwelling, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Ill, Inhabitant, Inhabitants, Iniquity, Resident, Sick, Sin, Sins, Therein, Won't, Zion

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Isaiah 33:24

6028 sin, deliverance from
7145 remnant

Isaiah 33:20-24

6703 peace, divine OT

Library

April 2. "He Shall Dwell on High" (Isa. xxxiii. 16).
"He shall dwell on high" (Isa. xxxiii. 16). It is easier for a consecrated Christian to live an out and out life for God than to live a mixed life. A soul redeemed and sanctified by Christ is too large for the shoals and sands of a selfish, worldly, sinful life. The great steamship, St. Paul, could sail in deep water without an effort, but she could make no progress in the shallow pool, or on the Long Branch sands; the smallest tugboat is worth a dozen of her there; but out in mid-ocean she could …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

The Fortress of the Faithful
'He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.'--ISAIAH xxxiii. 16. This glowing promise becomes even more striking if we mark its connection with the solemn question in the previous context. 'Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?' is the prophet's question; 'who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?' That question really means, Who is capable 'of communion with God'? The prophet sketches the …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Rivers of God
'But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.'--ISAIAH xxxiii. 21. One great peculiarity of Jerusalem, which distinguishes it from almost all other historical cities, is that it has no river. Babylon was on the Euphrates, Nineveh on the Tigris, Thebes on the Nile, Rome on the Tiber; but Jerusalem had nothing but a fountain or two, and a well or two, and a little trickle and an intermittent …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Judge, Lawgiver, King
'For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us.'--ISAIAH xxxiii. 22. There is reference here to the three forms of government in Israel: by Moses, by Judges, by Kings. In all, Israel was a Theocracy. Isaiah looks beyond the human representative to the true divine Reality. I. A truth for us, in both its more specific and its more general forms. (a) Specific. Christ is all these three for us--Authority; His will law; Defender. (b) More general. Everything …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

How to Dwell in the Fire of God
'Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15. He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil.'--ISAIAH xxxiii. 14, 15. 'He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God'--1 JOHN iv. 16. I have put these two verses together because, striking as is at first sight the …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Border of his Sanctuary
G. W. Is. xxxiii. 17 Glorious and solemn hour, Thus at last to stand, All behind us the great desert, All before, the land! Past the shadow of the valley, Past the weary plain; Past the rugged mountain pathway, Ne'er to be again. And before us, ever stretching In its golden sheen, Lies the fair, the blessed country Where our hearts have been-- Where our hearts have been whilst wandering Through the desert bare; For the soul's adored, beloved One, He abideth there. Clad in love and glory stands …
Frances Bevan—Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others

April 3 Evening
Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.--AMOS 4:11. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?--We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.--The wages of sin is death; but the gift …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

Question of the Contemplative Life
I. Is the Contemplative Life wholly confined to the Intellect, or does the Will enter into it? S. Thomas, On the Beatific Vision, I., xii. 7 ad 3m II. Do the Moral Virtues pertain to the Contemplative Life? S. Augustine, Of the City of God, xix. 19 III. Does the Contemplative Life comprise many Acts? S. Augustine, Of the Perfection of Human Righteousness, viii. 18 " Ep., cxxx. ad probam IV. Does the Contemplative Life consist solely in the Contemplation of God, or in the Consideration …
St. Thomas Aquinas—On Prayer and The Contemplative Life

Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-Seat of God, in Order to be Seriously Convinced of the Doctrine of Gratuitous Justification.
1. Source of error on the subject of Justification. Sophists speak as if the question were to be discussed before some human tribunal. It relates to the majesty and justice of God. Hence nothing accepted without absolute perfection. Passages confirming this doctrine. If we descend to the righteousness of the Law, the curse immediately appears. 2. Source of hypocritical confidence. Illustrated by a simile. Exhortation. Testimony of Job, David, and Paul. 3. Confession of Augustine and Bernard. 4. Another …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

A vision of the King.
ONE of the most blessed occupations for the believer is the prayerful searching of God's holy Word to discover there new glories and fresh beauties of Him, who is altogether lovely. Shall we ever find out all which the written Word reveals of Himself and His worthiness? This wonderful theme can never be exhausted. The heart which is devoted to Him and longs through the presence and indwelling of the Holy Spirit to be closer to the Lord, to hear and know more of Himself, will always find something …
Arno Gaebelein—The Lord of Glory

The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New.
1. Introduction, showing the necessity of proving the similarity of both dispensations in opposition to Servetus and the Anabaptists. 2. This similarity in general. Both covenants truly one, though differently administered. Three things in which they entirely agree. 3. First general similarity, or agreement--viz. that the Old Testament, equally with the New, extended its promises beyond the present life, and held out a sure hope of immortality. Reason for this resemblance. Objection answered. 4. …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Seven Sanctified Thoughts and Mournful Sighs of a Sick Man Ready to Die.
Now, forasmuch as God of his infinite mercy doth so temper our pain and sickness, that we are not always oppressed with extremity, but gives us in the midst of our extremities some respite, to ease and refresh ourselves, thou must have an especial care, considering how short a time thou hast either for ever to lose or to obtain heaven, to make use of every breathing time which God affords thee; and during that little time of ease to gather strength against the fits of greater anguish. Therefore, …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety

Three Things Briefly to be Regarded in Christ --viz. His Offices of Prophet, King, and Priest.
1. Among heretics and false Christians, Christ is found in name only; but by those who are truly and effectually called of God, he is acknowledged as a Prophet, King, and Priest. In regard to the Prophetical Office, the Redeemer of the Church is the same from whom believers under the Law hoped for the full light of understanding. 2. The unction of Christ, though it has respect chiefly to the Kingly Office, refers also to the Prophetical and Priestly Offices. The dignity, necessity, and use of this …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

The Angel of the Lord in the Pentateuch, and the Book of Joshua.
The New Testament distinguishes between the hidden God and the revealed God--the Son or Logos--who is connected with the former by oneness of nature, and who from everlasting, and even at the creation itself, filled up the immeasurable distance between the Creator and the creation;--who has been the Mediator in all God's relations to the world;--who at all times, and even before He became man in Christ, has been the light of [Pg 116] the world,--and to whom, specially, was committed the direction …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

The Blessed Privilege of Seeing God Explained
They shall see God. Matthew 5:8 These words are linked to the former and they are a great incentive to heart-purity. The pure heart shall see the pure God. There is a double sight which the saints have of God. 1 In this life; that is, spiritually by the eye of faith. Faith sees God's glorious attributes in the glass of his Word. Faith beholds him showing forth himself through the lattice of his ordinances. Thus Moses saw him who was invisible (Hebrews 11:27). Believers see God's glory as it were …
Thomas Watson—The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12

A Discourse of the House and Forest of Lebanon
OF THE HOUSE OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. That part of Palestine in which the celebrated mountains of Lebanon are situated, is the border country adjoining Syria, having Sidon for its seaport, and Land, nearly adjoining the city of Damascus, on the north. This metropolitan city of Syria, and capital of the kingdom of Damascus, was strongly fortified; and during the border conflicts it served as a cover to the Assyrian army. Bunyan, with great reason, supposes that, to keep …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

"And the Life. " How Christ is the Life.
This, as the former, being spoken indefinitely, may be universally taken, as relating both to such as are yet in the state of nature, and to such as are in the state of grace, and so may be considered in reference to both, and ground three points of truth, both in reference to the one, and in reference to the other; to wit, 1. That our case is such as we stand in need of his help, as being the Life. 2. That no other way but by him, can we get that supply of life, which we stand in need of, for he …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life

Isaiah
CHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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