◄ Isaiah 33:16 ►
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Good News Translation
Then you will be safe; you will be as secure as if in a strong fortress. You will have food to eat and water to drink.

New Revised Standard Version
they will live on the heights; their refuge will be the fortresses of rocks; their food will be supplied, their water assured.

Contemporary English Version
They will live in a fortress high on a rocky cliff, where they will have food and plenty of water.

New American Bible
That one shall dwell on the heights, with fortresses of rock for stronghold, food and drink in steady supply.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.

shall dwell

Isaiah 32:18 And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.

Psalm 15:1 A psalm for David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest in thy holy hill?

Psalm 90:1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

Psalm 91:1-10,14 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob. . . .

Psalm 107:41 And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.

Proverbs 1:33 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

Habakkuk 3:19 The Lord God is my strength: and he will make my feet like the feet of harts: and he the conqueror will lead me upon my high places singing psalms.

high.

Isaiah 26:1-5 In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein. . . .

Psalm 18:33 Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.

bread

Psalm 33:18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 34:10 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Psalm 37:3 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.

Psalm 111:5 He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant:

Luke 12:29-31 And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high. . . .

Context
The LORD is Exalted
…15He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil. 16He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.17His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land far off.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.

Proverbs 10:9
He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

Isaiah 25:4
Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.

Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them: for he that is merciful to them, shall be their shepherd, and at the fountains of waters he shall give them drink.

Isaiah 58:14
Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Jeremiah 37:21


Joel 3:16
And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Isaiah 33:15
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