The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 33:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

He that walketh righteously, etc. The prophet answers the question which he has supposed to be asked. None can endure the revelation of the presence of God but the holy and the upright—"he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully" (Psalms 24:4; comp. Psalms 15:2-5). Uprightness is then explained as consisting in six things mainly—

We may compare with this summa, y those of the Psalms above quoted. No enumeration is complete, or intended to be complete. Isaiah's has special reference to the favorite sins of the time—injustice (Isaiah 3:15; Isaiah 5:23), oppression (Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 3:12, Isaiah 3:14; Isaiah 5:7; etc.), the receiving of bribes (Isaiah 1:23; Hosea 4:18; Micah 3:11), and bloodshed (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 1:21; Isaiah 59:3).

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