Isaiah 32:5-7 NIV

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:5

The vile person shall no more be called liberal - The different epithets here employed require minute explanation. The vile person - נבל nabal , the pampered, fattened, brainless fellow, who eats to live, and lives to eat; who will scarcely part with any thing, and that which he does give he gives with an evil eye and a grudging heart. Liberal - נדיב nadib ; the generous, openhearted, princely man, who writes on all his possessions, For myself and mankind, and lives only to get... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:6

The vile person will speak villany "The fool will still utter folly" - A sort of proverbial saying, which Euripides (Bacchae, 369) has expressed in the very same manner and words: Μωρα γαρ μωρος λεγει· "The fool speaks folly. "Of this kind of simple and unadorned proverb or parable, see De S. Poes, Hebr. Praelect. xxiv. Against the Lord "Against Jehovah" - For אל El , two MSS. read אל al , more properly; but both are of nearly the same meaning. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil "As for the niggard, his instruments are evil" - His machinations, his designs. The paronomasia, which the prophet frequently deals in, suggested this expression כליו וכלי vechelai kelaiv . The first word is expressed with some variety in the MSS. Seven MSS. read וכילי vekili , one וכל vechol , another וכולי vecoli . To destroy the poor with lying words "To defeat the assertions of the poor in judgment" - A word seems to have... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

SECTION VIII . A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH 'S KINGDOM ( Isaiah 32:1-8 ). A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH 'S KINGDOM . It is generally allowed that this prophecy is Messianic; but some critics insist that it is not so "in a narrow sense." They regard Isaiah as expecting Messiah's kingdom to follow immediately on the discomfiture of Sennacherib, and as looking to Hezekiah to inaugurate it. According to this view, Hezekiah, renovated in character, was to be the Messiah, and might have... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

An ideal of political good. When the Divine Spirit has been outpoured, when the idols have been cast away, and the Assyrian yoke has been cast off, happy days will dawn. I. ROYALTY WILL BE SYNONYMOUS WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS . The King will be seen in his beauty—not the splendor of purple robes and lofty throne and brilliant court, but that of the equity and justice which imitate Heaven. God will call him by his name, will make him rich with hidden possessions, will go before him... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:5

The vile person shall be no more called liberal ; rather, the foolish person— as nabal is commonly translated ( Deuteronomy 32:6 ; 2 Samuel 3:33 ; 2 Samuel 13:13 ; Psalms 14:1 ; Psalms 39:8 ; Psalms 74:22 , etc.)—such a man as the "Nabal" of 1 Samuel 25:1-44 . Men are apt to confound moral distinctions, and to call the "fools" who waste their substance in feasting and revelry "generous" or "liberal," and the niggards ( churls ) who hoard their riches "warm men," "wealthy... read more

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:5

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