Introduction
As if the previous exhortation (Isaiah 31:6) has been heeded, and the opposing great world powers like Assyria have been overcome, the sifted, purified Jews now, in the eye of the prophet, enter into a new kingly organization, including not the idolatrous elements of the nation, but only the reformed, obedient, and holy remnant. Over this kingdom reigns One, the essence of whose being is truth and righteousness. Those whom he employs as his vicegerents shall be inspired to rule with inflexible right-doing, and in himself shall be protection unfailing, and at the same time satisfying, refreshing, and invigorating.
The figures here used are but the expansion of those used in Isaiah 4:8 and Isaiah 25:4. Only the traveller in an oriental desert can fully appreciate what these figures imply. See The Lord’s Land, by RIDGAWAY; also The Land and the Book, by THOMSON.
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