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Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 32:11-12

These women needed to prepare for captivity and to mourn at the prospect of an enemy invasion and its consequences. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:1-20

1-8. Characteristics of the future age. 9-14. A warning of coming desolation to the over-confident people. 15-20. Afterwards shall be a peaceful and prosperous future.1. The ideal future. 2. Men will defend and protect their inferiors instead of oppressing them. 3. Cp. Isaiah 29:18. 5f. Moral confusion shall cease; men shall be taken at their true value, their character being clearly seen in their actions. 6. Hypocrisy] RV ’profaneness.’8. By.. stand] RV ’in liberal things shall he... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 32:10

(10) Many days and years . . .—Literally, days to the year, a phrase after the pattern of “add ye year to year” in Isaiah 29:1, but implying, not the long continuance of the trouble, but its quick arrival, as in “a year and a day.”The vintage shall fail . . .—The words are commonly taken as predicting a literal failure of the vine-crop, and therefore of the supply of wine for the banquets of the rich. A truer insight into the language of a poet-prophet would lead to our seeing in it a symbol of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 32:11

(11) Tremble, ye women that are at ease . . .—The words find at once a parallel and a contrast in those spoken to the daughters of Jerusalem in Luke (Luke 23:28-30). The call to repentance includes their stripping themselves of their costly finery, and putting on the “sackcloth” (the word is implied, though not expressed in the Hebrew), which was the outward symbol of repentance (Jonah 3:5-8). The words, it may be noted, are masculine, the call not being limited to the women. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 32:1-20

Isaiah 32:20 The text of Coleridge's Lay Sermon (1817), which he describes as 'easy to be remembered from its briefness, likely to be remembered from its beauty'. References. XXXII. 20. W. J. Hocking, ibid. vol. xxxvii. 1890, p. 396. J. Percival, Sermons at Rugby, p. 85. F. E. Paget, Sermons on Duties of Daily Life, p. 311; see also Plain Preaching to Poor People (6th Series), p. 121. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-20

CHAPTER XVIISAIAH TO WOMENDATE UNCERTAINIsaiah 32:9-20THE date of this prophecy, which has been appended to those spoken by Isaiah during the Egyptian intrigues (704-702), is not certain. It is addressed to women, and there is no reason why the prophet, when he was upbraiding the men of Judah for their false optimism, should not also have sought to awaken the conscience of their wives and daughters on what is the besetting sin rather of women than of men. The chief evidence for dissociating the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 32:1-20

CHAPTER 32 The Coming King and His Kingdom 1. The King and His rule (Isaiah 32:1-8 ) 2. The careless women addressed (Isaiah 32:9-12 ) 3. The judgment of the land and the city (Isaiah 32:13-14 ) 4. The hope of the future (Isaiah 32:15-20 ) The connection with the previous chapter is obvious. In Isaiah 31:4-9 the coming of the Lord for the deliverance of His people and the punishment of their enemies is predicted. “So shall the Lord of Hosts come down to fight Mount Zion and the hill... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 32:10

32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, {g} ye careless women: {h} for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.(g) Meaning that the affliction would continue long and when one year was past, yet they should look for new plagues.(h) God will take from you the means and opportunities, which made you contemn him: that is, abundance of worldly goods. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-20

JUDAH AND EGYPT These chapters make a unit since, with the exception of the opening part of chapter 28, they chiefly deal with Judah’s futile alliance with Egypt. Isaiah 28:0 Israel, or the kingdom of the ten tribes, is addressed under the name of her leading tribe “Ephraim” (Isaiah 28:1 ). Her great sin is strong drink. “The head of the fat valley” is Samaria the capital, which is soon to be overthrown by the Assyrians (Isaiah 28:2-4 ). Observe, however, the usual forecast of the end of the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 32:1-20

Prophetic Warnings Isaiah 31-33 Remember that. If on hearing that you choose to trust to Egypt, so be it; only, walk in the light, understand your position, make your choice deliberately, and abide by it. All that the Bible, a revelation from God, can do is to make distinctions, announce issues, address appeals to reason and to conscience, and there even an inspired volume ends its labour. The people imagined that Egypt was a sanctuary: the prophet said, It is so, in a very temporary and... read more

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