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Matthew Henry

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 32:19

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest ,.... The people of God will be peaceable and quiet, safe and secure, when the judgments of God, signified by a "hail" storm, shall come upon antichrist, and the antichristian states, intended by the "forest", both for their numbers, and for their barrenness and unfruitfulness; see Revelation 16:21 and as so it sometimes is, by the disposition of divine Providence, that a storm of hail falls not upon fields and gardens, and the fruits of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:19

The city shalt be low all a low place. "The city shall be laid level with the plain" - For ובשפלה ubashephelah , the Syriac reads וכשפלה ukeshephelah . The city - probably Nineveh or Babylon: but this verse is very obscure. Saltus; Assyriorum regnum: civitas; magnifica Assyriorum castra. Ephrem Syr. ire loc. For וברד ubarad , a MS. has וירד vaiyered ; and so conjectured Abp. Secker, referring to Zechariah 11:2 . 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 32:13-20

A FURTHER MINGLING OF THREATS WITH COMFORTING PROMISES . The women require, like the men, to be both warned and comforted, wherefore the prophet addresses to them, as to the men in Isaiah 30:1-33 . and 31; an intermixture of threatening ( Isaiah 30:13 , Isaiah 30:14 ) with promise ( Isaiah 30:15-20 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:19

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest ; rather, but it shall hail in the coming down ( i.e. the destruction) of the forest . "The forest" has commonly been regarded as Assyria, on the strength of Isaiah 10:18 , Isaiah 10:19 , Isaiah 10:33 , Isaiah 10:34 . Mr. Cheyne, however, suggests Judah, or the high and haughty ones of Judah, whose destruction was a necessary preliminary to the establishment of Christ's kingdom. May not God's enemies generally be meant? The city.... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 32:19

When it shall hail - Hebrew, ברדת ברד bârad beredeth - ‘And it shall hail in coming down. There is a paranomasia in the original here, which cannot be expressed in a translation - a figure of speech, which, as we have seen, is common in Isaiah. ‘Hail’ is an image of divine vengeance or punishment; and the reference here is, doubtless, to the storms of indignation that would come on the enemies of the Jews, particularly on the Assyrians (see the notes at Isaiah 30:30).Coming down on the forest... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 32:19

Isaiah 32:19. When Or, rather, And it shall hail As my blessings shall be poured down upon my people, who, from a wilderness, are turned into a fruitful field, so my judgments (which are signified by hail, Isaiah 28:2; Isaiah 28:17, and elsewhere) shall fall upon them who were a fruitful field, but are turned into a forest, as was said Isaiah 32:15; that is, upon the unbelieving and rebellious Jews. And the city Jerusalem, which, though now it was the seat of God’s worship and people,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-20

A kingdom of righteousness (32:1-20)Looking beyond the victory over the Assyrians, Isaiah sees the day when the people of God are under the rule of an ideal government. At the head of this government is a king whose chief officials share his characteristics of integrity, justice and mercy. Together they give their people protection and contentment (32:1-2).In such a kingdom the people as a whole reflect in their lives the qualities of their rulers. They have a desire to know more of God and his... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 32:19

hail, coming down. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia , for emphasis. Hebrew. ubarad beredeth; Eng. hail hailing. read more

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