Isaiah 33:8
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
Note Forms of the Hebrew berit are translated in most passages as covenant.
Note DSS; MT the cities
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: the enemy hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- highways
- Isaiah 10:29–31; Judges 5:6; Lamentations 1:4
- he hath broken
- 2 Kings 18:14–17
- he hath despised
- Isaiah 10:9–11; Isaiah 36:1; 2 Kings 18:13
- he regardeth
- Isaiah 10:13, 14; 1 Samuel 17:10, 26; 2 Kings 18:20, 21; Psalm 10:5; Luke 18:2–4