Isaiah 32:1-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

We have here the description of a flourishing kingdom. ?Blessed art thou, O land! when it is thus with thee, when kings, princes, and people, are in their places such as they should be.? It may be taken as a directory both to magistrates and subjects, what both ought to do, or as a panegyric to Hezekiah, who ruled well and saw something of the happy effects of his good government, and it was designed to make the people sensible how happy they were under his administration and how careful they... read more

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 32:1

Behold, a King shall reign in righteousness ,.... Not Hezekiah, as the Jewish writers; at least only as a type, as some writers interpret it; rather Christ himself, who is "King" not only of the whole world, and of the kings of it in general, but in particular is King of saints; and who "reigns" now in and over his church and people, being set as King by his Father over his holy hill of Zion, and, being exalted at his right hand, is made and declared Lord and Christ; and where he does and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:2

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ,.... Or, "that man"; the King Messiah before mentioned; who had agreed to become man, was promised and prophesied of as such, had often appeared in a human form, was to be incarnate, and now is; though he is not a mere man; were he, he could not be what is here said of him, "as a hiding place, and covert from the wind and tempest", of his Father's wrath, raised by sin; and which all men are deserving of, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:3

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim ,.... Not of the seers and prophets, or ministers of the word only, but of the righteous in general, as the Targum; even all such as are illuminated by the Spirit of God, who shall have a clear discerning of Gospel truths, behold with open face, with eyes unveiled, the glory of them, and of Christ in them, and not have their eyes covered, or such a dim obscure knowledge of them as under the law; and not only the watchmen shall see, eye to eye,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:4

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge ,.... Such who have been hasty and precipitant, as the word F3 נמהרים "inconsideratorum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "praecipatorum", Montanus. signifies; who have not given themselves time to consider what they have read or heard, or has been proposed unto them, and have hastily received every thing that has been suggested to them, especially by carnal sense and reason, shall now sit down, and coolly consider things, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:5

The vile person shall be no more called liberal ,.... Or "Nabal" (a fool) "shall no more be called Nadib" F5 לא יקרא עוד לנבל נדיב "Nabal non vocabitur Nadib", Gataker. (a prince); or have this name put upon him, or be advanced to honour and dignity, or be flattered with such a title, so unbecoming him. The sense seems to be, that, in Gospel times, such who are fools as to the knowledge of spiritual things, that have no spiritual and experimental knowledge of the truths of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:6

For the vile person will speak villainy ,.... Or, "a fool will utter folly" F7 כי נבל נבלה ידבר "nam stultus stultitiam loquetur", Pagninus, Montanus. ; a man that has no understanding of Gospel truths himself can not deliver them to others; he will only speak foolish things, concerning the purity of human nature, the power of man's free will, the sufficiency of his own righteousness to justify him, and the merits of good works, and the like; and therefore such a man is a very... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil ,.... Not his vessels or measures he sells by, which are small and deficient, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it; nor his servants, his tools in doing his wickedness, which are fit for his purpose, wicked men; but rather these are much the same with "the instruments of the foolish shepherd", Zechariah 11:15 and may signify the evil ways and methods which covetous pastors or shepherds take to fleece the flock, and to increase their own gain:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:8

But the liberal man deviseth liberal things ,.... The man of a princely spirit consults and contrives, and delivers out things worthy of a prince and governor in the church of God; he that is one of a free spirit, that is made free by the Spirit of God, and is led into the doctrines of free grace, will study to deliver out the same to others, and, as he has freely received, he will freely give, and without any sinister, selfish, and mercenary ends and views: and by liberal things shall he... read more

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