Isaiah 33:17 “Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stret…”

Isaiah 33:17

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

World English Bible

Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.

American Standard Version

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thine eyes shall see the King in his glory: they shall beholde the lande farre off.

Darby Translation

Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is far off.

Young's Literal Translation

A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.

Bible in Basic English

Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.

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Cross references

“eyes”

Zechariah 9:17 John 14:21 1 John 3:2 John 1:14 John 17:24 Isaiah 37:1

Zechariah 9:17 · BSB

How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

John 14:21 · BSB

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

1 John 3:2 · BSB

Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

John 1:14 · BSB

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 17:24 · BSB

Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

Isaiah 37:1 · BSB

On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

“that is very far off”

2 Corinthians 4:18 Psalm 31:8 Hebrews 11:13–15

2 Corinthians 4:18 · BSB

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Psalm 31:8 · BSB

You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

Hebrews 11:13–15 · BSB

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Also

Isaiah 6:5 Isaiah 26:15

Isaiah 6:5 · BSB

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

Isaiah 26:15 · BSB

You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

18Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

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