イザヤ書 32:13-20 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-20

In these verses we have God rising up to judgment against the vile persons, to punish them for their villainy; but at length returning in mercy to the liberal, to reward them for their liberality. I. When there was so great a corruption of manners, and so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might well be expected, and here is a warning given of such times coming. The alarm is sounded to the women that were at ease (Isa. 32:9) and the careless daughters, to feed whose pride,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:13

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ,.... The curse of the earth, the spontaneous productions of it, being uncultivated, and this through want of men, they being destroyed or carried captive by the enemy; this is to be understood of the land of Judea, and not Samaria, as Aben Ezra; where the professing and covenant people of God dwelt; which is mentioned to show the apostasy of this people, for which ruin came upon their land, and the aggravation of it, as well as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:14

Because the palaces shall be forsaken ,.... The palaces of the princes and nobles shall be forsaken by them, they being obliged to flee from the enemy, or being taken, and either slain, or carried captive. The word in the Hebrew is in the singular number, "the palace", meaning the royal palace; and so Aben Ezra and Jarchi interpret it of the king's palace; though the Targum paraphrases it the house of the sanctuary, or the temple, so Kimchi; which was left desolate, as Christ foretold it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:15

Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high ,.... That is, Jerusalem shall lie in ruins until this time comes; which therefore cannot be understood of the effusion of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, which, as it was before the destruction of the city by the Romans, so the desolation it was brought to by the Chaldeans did not last so long; but must be interpreted of a pouring forth of the Spirit in his gifts and graces yet to come, which will bring on the fulness of the Gentiles, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:16

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness ,.... In the desert part of the world, inhabited by Pagans, Papists, and Mahometans; where the Scriptures, the rule of judgment, and where the Gospel, sometimes called the judgment of the Lord, Isaiah 51:4 had no place, now they shall have one, and an abiding one; and men of judgment in spiritual and evangelical things, and such as do justice and judgment, shall dwell there: and righteousness remain in the fruitful field ; both the doctrine... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:17

And the work of righteousness shall be peace ,.... Not works of righteousness done by men, no, not by the best of men; for though peace may be had and enjoyed in doing them, yet it does not arise and flow from thence, because there is no justification by them, and salvation through them, without which there can be no true solid peace; nor the work of righteousness in men, which is their sanctification, and is indeed the work of God, and follows upon the pouring forth of his Spirit, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:18

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation ,.... Jews and Gentiles, and all the saints, shall dwell in peace and love one with another, and shall be free from all the outrages and persecutions of the enemy; which, when these happy times of the pouring forth of the Spirit and of the spiritual reign of Christ come, will be no more: and in sure dwellings ; where they may dwell safely and confidently, secure from all enemies, in no fear of them, and free from all hurt and danger by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:19

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest ,.... The people of God will be peaceable and quiet, safe and secure, when the judgments of God, signified by a "hail" storm, shall come upon antichrist, and the antichristian states, intended by the "forest", both for their numbers, and for their barrenness and unfruitfulness; see Revelation 16:21 and as so it sometimes is, by the disposition of divine Providence, that a storm of hail falls not upon fields and gardens, and the fruits of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:20

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters ,.... In places well watered and moistened, and so fit to receive the seed sown, which grows up, and brings forth much fruit, and amply rewards the pains of the sower, who on that account is happy. These words are directed to the ministers of the Gospel in the latter day; the word is compared to seed, and the preachers of it to sowers of seed, who have a commission to preach the Gospel to every creature; and in the latter day, in the spiritual... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:13

Shall come up thorns and briers "The thorn and the brier shall come up" - All the ancient Versions read ושמיר veshamir , with the conjunction. And an ancient MS. has בו תעלה taaleh bo , "shall come up in it, "which seems to be right; or rather בה bah : and there is a rasure in the place of בו bo in another ancient MS. Yea, upon all the houses of joy - For כי ki , the ancient Versions, except the Vulgate, seem to have read ו ve . כי ki may perhaps be a mistake... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:13

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