Isaiah 33:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The highways are deserted; travelers have quit the road. The treaty is broken; its oaths are despised, the people are disregarded.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. The enemy has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities and the witnesses, he regards no man.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: the enemy hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.

Common English Bible

⁸ The highways were deserted; travelers left the road. The covenant was broken; solemn pledges were rejected; no one cared for humanity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road, the covenant is made void. He hath rejected the cities, he hath not regarded the men.

Isaiah 33:8 Cross References

Psalm 10:5

Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 35:8

A highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not travel on it, but it shall be for God’s people; no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.

Isaiah 36:1

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her young girls grieve, and her lot is bitter.

Leviticus 26:22

I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock; they shall make you few in number, and your roads shall be deserted.

Judges 19:17

When the old man looked up and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city, he said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”

Judges 5:6

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased, and travelers kept to the byways.

1 Samuel 17:10

And the Philistine said, “Today I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man, that we may fight together.”

1 Samuel 17:26

David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”