Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
on high—heights inaccessible to the foe (Isaiah 26:1).
bread . . . waters—image from the expected siege by Sennacherib; however besieged by trials without, the godly shall have literal and spiritual food, as God sees good for them (Isaiah 41:17; Psalms 37:25; Psalms 34:10; Psalms 132:15).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 33:16:
Job 4:6
Job 6:15
Song of Solomon 2:14
Isaiah 4:5
Isaiah 51:14
Jeremiah 37:21
Jeremiah 40:5
1 Timothy 6:6
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