Isaiah 32:11,Isaiah 32:9

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 32:11

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

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

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 32:11

Tremble … be troubled . The repetition of this verse is, as usual, emphatic. Its object is to impress those whom the prophet is addressing with the certainty of the coming judgment. Strip you, and make you bare ; i.e. "bare your breasts," in preparation for the beating which is to follow (see the comment on the next verse). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:11

Folk who are at ease. Special reference is made to the women of the upper classes in Jerusalem, who were living in self-indulgence and extravagance, and setting mischievous example to all the women of the land. The coming woes would affect them all the more seriously because of the luxuries which they had gathered round themselves, and which had become to them fancied necessities. No doubt the idle, self-indulgent, and too often profligate conduct of these women greatly added to the pressure... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:11

Strip ye, and make ye bare - That is, take off your joyful and splendid apparel, and put on the habiliments of mourning, indicative of a great calamity.And gird sackcloth - (See the note at Isaiah 3:24). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 32:9-12

Isaiah 32:9-12. Rise up, &c. The prophet, to show the sinners and hypocrites in Zion, (Isaiah 33:14,) that they must not expect to receive blessings from God, such as he had just now predicted, while they remained in a state of impenitence, denounces against them the calamities which should come upon them; 1st, By the Assyrian, and then by the Babylonish destruction. Ye women that are at ease That indulge yourselves in idleness and luxury; shake off your carelessness and sloth,... read more

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

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 32:9-12

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