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Matthew Henry

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 32:10

Many days and years shall ye be troubled ,.... Or, "days above a year" F11 ימים על שנה "dies super annum", Vatablus; "dies ultra annum", Cocceius. ; a year, and somewhat more, yet not two years; which some understand of the time from this prophecy, until their troubles began, by the invasion of Sennacherib; and others of the continuance of it, it lasting more than a year; or, "days with a year"; so Kimchi, days upon a year, year upon year, one year after another; and so denotes a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye women that are at ease ,.... Which may be considered either as an exhortation to repentance for their sins, of which, if a due sense was impressed on their hearts, would cause a trembling of body and mind, under a fearful expectation of divine wrath; or as a prediction, that though they were now quite tranquil and easy, and nothing disturbed them, yet such calamities would come upon them as would make them tremble: be troubled, ye careless ones ; or, "confident ones" F12 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:12

They shall lament for the teats ,.... Either of the beasts of the field, that should be dried up, and give no milk, through the great drought that should be upon the land; or through the waste of the herbage by the enemy; or else of the women, their breasts and paps, which should afford no milk for their infants, through the famine that should press them sore, which would occasion great lamentation, both in mothers and children; though some think are to be understood of the fields, and are... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:11

Gird sackcloth - שק sak , sackcloth, a word necessary to the sense, is here lost, but preserved by the Septuagint, MSS. Alex. and Pachom., and 1. D. II., and edit. Ald. and Comp., and the Arabic and Syriac. Tremble - be troubled - strip you - פשטה peshotah , רגזה regazah , etc. These are infinitives, with a paragogic ה he , according to Schultens, Institut. Ling. Hebr. p. 453, and are to be taken in an imperative sense. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:12

They shall lament - for the pleasant fields "Mourn ye for the pleasant field" - The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read ספדו siphdu , mourn ye, imperative; twelve MSS., (five ancient), two editions, the Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Syriac, and Vulgate, all read שדה sadeh , a field; not שדי shedey , breasts. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-12

SECTION IX . FURTHER DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL , JOINED WITH PROMISES ( Isaiah 32:9-20 ). A REBUKE OF THE WOMEN . It might seem at first sight as if we had here a detached utterance of the prophet, accidentally conjoined with the preceding passage ( Isaiah 32:1-8 ). But Isaiah 32:15-18 furnish a link of connection between the two portions of the chapter, and make it probable that they were delivered at the same time. Mr. Cheyne supposes that the indifference of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-12

The need of rousing women in critical times from a state of self-satisfaction and self-complacency. Women are less apprehensive than men, more inclined to suppose that the state of things to which they are accustomed will, as a matter el course, remain unchanged. They have, as a general rule, less historical knowledge than men, and less acquaintance with the condition of the world wherein they live. The self-complacency and unsuspiciousness of Marie Antoinette and the ladies of her court,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-20

Until the Spirit be poured out. How constantly does Scripture speak of every happy reformation as due to the "outpouring of the Spirit," or the sending or breathing of the Spirit on human-kind! Language none the less expressive because mysterious. Those epochs cannot be forecast: no meteorology can explain to us these movements "from on high." But they may be waited for and prepared for, without fear of disappointment. Again and again they had come to the prophet's heart; and from his heart... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:10

Many days and years shall ye be troubled ; rather, in a year and days ; i.e. "in less than two years." The object of the prophet is not to fix the duration of the trouble, but to mark the time of its commencement (comp. Isaiah 29:1 ). Shall ye be troubled ; rather, shall ye tremble , or shudder (so Deuteronomy 2:25 ; Psalms 77:18 ; Psalms 99:1 ; Isaiah 5:25 ; Isaiah 64:2 ; Jeremiah 33:9 , etc.). Ye careless women ; rather, ye confident ones . The word is... read more

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