Isaiah 32:12-14 NIV

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 32:12

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:13

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ,.... The curse of the earth, the spontaneous productions of it, being uncultivated, and this through want of men, they being destroyed or carried captive by the enemy; this is to be understood of the land of Judea, and not Samaria, as Aben Ezra; where the professing and covenant people of God dwelt; which is mentioned to show the apostasy of this people, for which ruin came upon their land, and the aggravation of it, as well as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:14

Because the palaces shall be forsaken ,.... The palaces of the princes and nobles shall be forsaken by them, they being obliged to flee from the enemy, or being taken, and either slain, or carried captive. The word in the Hebrew is in the singular number, "the palace", meaning the royal palace; and so Aben Ezra and Jarchi interpret it of the king's palace; though the Targum paraphrases it the house of the sanctuary, or the temple, so Kimchi; which was left desolate, as Christ foretold it... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:13

Shall come up thorns and briers "The thorn and the brier shall come up" - All the ancient Versions read ושמיר veshamir , with the conjunction. And an ancient MS. has בו תעלה taaleh bo , "shall come up in it, "which seems to be right; or rather בה bah : and there is a rasure in the place of בו bo in another ancient MS. Yea, upon all the houses of joy - For כי ki , the ancient Versions, except the Vulgate, seem to have read ו ve . כי ki may perhaps be a mistake... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:14

The palaces shall be forsaken - The house of the sanctuary (the temple) shall be destroyed. - Targum. The forts "Ophel" - It was a part of Mount Zion, rising higher than the rest, at the eastern extremity, near to the temple, a little to the south of it; called by Micah, Micah 4:8 , "Ophel of the daughter of Zion. "It was naturally strong by its situation; and had a wall of its own, by which it was separated from the rest of Zion. 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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:14

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:9-20

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