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James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 32:16

"Then justice shall abide in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, shall be quietness and confidence forever. And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send for the feet of the ox and the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 32:11-14

Isaiah 32:11-14. Tremble, ye women— Tremble, &c.—and gird sackcloth upon your loins, Isa 32:12 upon your breasts; lamenting for the pleasant field, for the fruitful vine: Isa 32:13 for the land, &c.—yea, for all the houses of joy; [for] the joyous city, Isaiah 32:14. Because the temple is deserted; the thronged city left; the clift and watch-tower shall for a long season be for dens, &c. Vitringa. The prophet begins and proceeds in a more lofty tone than in the former passage,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 32:15-16

Isaiah 32:15-16. Until the Spirit be poured upon us— The prophet teaches, that the calamity which he had foretold should at length terminate, after a long delay, in excellent benefits to be conferred upon the people of God, as he had shewn in ch. Isaiah 29:17, &c. and Isaiah 30:19, &c. which are analogous to this. The benefits that he here enumerates are principally spiritual: and though the prophet, no doubt, in these words refers primarily to the blessings consequent upon the people's... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 32:19

Isaiah 32:19. When it shall hail— The prophet having, in the preceding verses, set forth the felicity of the church restored, could not pass by the divine judgment upon its enemies. By the decent, or foot of the forest, we understand that track of country which was beneath mount Libanus, and usually called Syria, together with the great cities situated in and about that valley; and the meaning of the prophet is, that the enemies of the people of God, such as the Syrians and Babylonians, who are... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 32:20

Isaiah 32:20. Blessed are ye that sow, &c.— The wilderness of the Gentile world was to be changed into a fruitful field; the prophet therefore foresaw it would come to pass, that the apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ, departing from Judaea, should, throughout the whole known world, and in the most celebrated and frequented parts of it, sow the seed of evangelical doctrine, and prepare the Gentiles to receive that seed by spiritual discourse and instruction, thereby eradicating the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:13

13. (Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23). houses of joy—pleasure-houses outside of Jerusalem, not Jerusalem itself, but other cities destroyed by Sennacherib in his march (Isaiah 7:23- :). However, the prophecy, in its full accomplishment, refers to the utter desolation of Judea and its capital by Rome, and subsequently, previous to the second coming of the King (Psalms 118:26; Luke 13:35; Luke 19:38); "the joyous city" is in this view, Jerusalem (Luke 19:38- :). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:14

14. palaces—most applicable to Jerusalem (see on Isaiah 32:3). multitude . . . left—the noisy din of the city, that is, the city with its noisy multitude shall lie forsaken [MAURER]. forts—rather, "Ophel" (that is, the mound), the term applied specially to the declivity on the east of Zion, surrounded with its own wall (2 Chronicles 27:3; 2 Chronicles 33:14; 2 Kings 5:24), and furnished with "towers" (or watchtowers), perhaps referred to here (Nehemiah 3:26; Nehemiah 3:27). for ever—limited by... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:15

15. This can only partially apply to the spiritual revival in Hezekiah's time; its full accomplishment belongs to the Christian dispensation, first at Pentecost (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17), perfectly in coming times (Psalms 104:30; Ezekiel 36:26; Ezekiel 39:29; Zechariah 12:10), when the Spirit shall be poured on Israel, and through it on the Gentiles (Zechariah 12:10- :). wilderness . . . fruitful field . . . forest—when Judea, so long waste, shall be populous and fruitful, and the land of the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:16

16. judgment—justice. wilderness—then reclaimed. fruitful field—then become more fruitful (Isaiah 32:15); thus "wilderness" and "fruitful field" include the whole land of Judea. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:17

17. work—the effect (Proverbs 14:34; James 3:18). peace—internal and external. read more

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