Isaiah 33:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Look upon Zion; contemplate Zion's beauty and safety, and her glorious and peculiar privileges; it is an object worthy of thy deepest meditation. The city of our solemnities: this he mentions, as the chief part of Zion's glory and happiness, that God was solemnly worshipped, and the solemn assemblies and feasts kept in her. A quiet habitation, &c.; which was but very obscurely and imperfectly fulfilled in the literal Zion; but was clearly and fully accomplished in the mystical Zion, the church of God in the times of the gospel, against which, we are assured, that the gates of hell shall not prevail, Matthew 16:18.

Isaiah 33:20

20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.