Bible Strands
Isaiah 33:24
And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Isaiah speaks the word of the LORD to Zion, at the close of a chapter that moves from judgment (vv. 1–9) through praise (vv. 10–12) to this promise of the Lord's coming and its effects (vv. 22–24).
The words — נְשׂוּא (nesu') is the passive participle of נשׂא, "to bear / carry away"; the iniquity is not merely pardoned but physically lifted off the people.
The thread — Exodus 15:26 makes the absence of disease the direct consequence of the LORD not bringing His sicknesses, and Revelation 21:4 names the same end-state: no more pain. Jeremiah 50:20 echoes the "search for guilt but none found" motif.
Why it lands — The text refuses to separate the spiritual from the physical: sickness is the symptom of unforgiven iniquity, so the promise of healing is inseparable from the promise of pardon.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 50:20 In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
- Revelation 21:4 ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- Exodus 15:26 saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- Isaiah 58:8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- Jeremiah 33:6 Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- James 5:14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
- Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- Isaiah 30:26 The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.