Isaiah 32:9-12 - Exposition

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 a knot of women, gathered at some little distance from the men to whom Isaiah had addressed verses 1-8, provoked the prophet suddenly to turn to them, and speak to them in terms of warning.