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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 32:17

The work of righteousness shall be peace; the effect of this prevailing practice of righteousness shall be prosperity and outward felicity. Quietness; tranquillity, both of mind and outward estate. Assurance; or, confidence. The observation of God's precepts will beget in them a confidence and assurance of God's mercy, and the fulfilling of his promises.

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See also Isaiah 32:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 32:17. _THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Righteousness works and produces peace. _THE EFFECT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] עבדת _abodath, the culture_. Righteousness, _cultivated_ by peace, produces tr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - That which righteousness produces; or the effect of the prevalence of righteousness on the nation. SHALL BE PEACE - There shall be no internal agitation, and no confli...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 32 THE COMING KING AND HIS KINGDOM 1. _The King and His rule (Isaiah 32:1)_ 2. _The careless women addressed (Isaiah 32:9)_ 3. _The judgment of the land and the city (Isaiah 32:13)_ 4. The hop...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 32. This chapter is regarded by some scholars as non-Isaianic on the ground of phraseology and ideas, but while it may have been interpolated, it is probably in the main Isaiah's work. It falls...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WORK. tillage. assurance. confidence. Hebrew. _b_. _t_ ah (App-69) Same word as careless (Isaiah 32:9), but not in irony....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _work_and _effect_are synonyms; both mean literally "work," and both have the sense of "effect" (the latter only here used in this sense). _quietness and assurance_ (R.V. CONFIDENCE) cf. ch. Isaiah 3...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The consequence of this supremacy of righteousness is universal tranquillity and security, a contrast to the false carnal security denounced in Isaiah 32:9_; Isaiah 32:11_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 32:9-20 To the Women of Jerusalem Like the previous sections (Isaiah 29:1 ff., Isaiah 29:15 ff., Isaiah 30:31) this passage is divided i

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 907 THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS PEACE Isaiah 32:16. _Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be pe...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. SECURITY TEXT: Isaiah 32:9-20 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. 10 For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye carele...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. AND THE WORK - the effect (; ). OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE PEACE - internal and ext...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-8. Characteristics of the future age. 9-14. A warning of coming desolation to the over-confident people. 15-20. Afterwards shall be a peaceful and prosperous future....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 32 A NEW KING V1 Some day there will be a new king. He will govern rightly. And his o...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The terrible changes that verses 13-14 describe are not final. An even greater change will follow. That also will be the work of God’s spirit. • There will be a new earth (verse 15). There will be ne...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֛ה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַ צְּדָקָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֑ום וַֽ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVI ISAIAH TO WOMEN DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 32:9 THE date of this prophecy, which has been appended to those spoken by Isaiah during the Egyptian intrigues (704-702), is not certain. It is ad...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain -----------...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Isaiah 32:9-20 When Christ's kingdom is set up it will bring dismay to the poor children of fashion. For more days than there are in the year will they be troubled, Isaiah...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this message the prophet describes the reign of the coming King, and then suddenly appeals to the women. He describes the reign of the King as establishment of order and creation of refuge and refr...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Peace. The just shall enjoy peace, under Ezechias._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include the whole of these blessed verses under one reading, for the sake of shortness. How very gracious is this call to all careless and inconsiderate persons; and how strikingly doth the Prophet...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._And the work of righteousness shall be peace. _A little before, he censured severely that peace which made the Jews drowsy and slothful; he now promises a different kind of repose, which will be a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Then, in chapter 32, the Messiah should reign in righteousness and set everything morally in order. Zion would in fact be a wilderness until the Spirit was poured out from on high, and then it should...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE PEACE,.... Not works of righteousness done by men, no, not by the best of men; for though peace may be had and enjoyed in doing them, yet it does not arise and f...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. Ver. 17. _And the work of righteousness shall be peace._] Peace both of country and of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then judgment_ Just judgment, as the next clause explains it, _shall dwell in the wilderness_ In what had formerly been a wilderness, namely, among the Gentiles, now supposed to be converted to Chris...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the work of righteousness, the condition which is produced by the application of the Lord's righteousness in all the affairs of the Church, SHALL BE PEACE, a security resting upon the foundation o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DESOLATION AND RESTORATION...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-20 When there was so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might be expected. Alas! how many careless ones there are, who support self-indulgence by shameful niggardliness! We deserve t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 32:17 work H4639 righteousness H6666 peace H7965 effect H5656 righteousness H6666 quietness H8252 (H8687) assurance...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GREAT TURN-AROUND (ISAIAH 32:15). Analysis. a Until the Spirit is poured on us from above, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest (Isaiah 32:...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 32:17 I. Isaiah was a true patriot; he was a man of the purest moral character, and of the most absolute faith in God. It broke his heart to see the degradation of his countrymen; he saw that i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Promise of coming Kingdom. Warning of great tribulation. The King Deliverer. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Wasting and desolating judgment upon the land and people of Israel was pronounced b...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 32:3. _The eyes of them that see shall not be dim._ The whole land shall be full of smiling affluence and joy; they shall have health of countenance, and look up with joy to a paternal throne....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the work of righteousness shall be peace_ THE TRUE WORK OF LIFE I. THE NATURE OF TRUE LIFE WORK--the work of righteousness. What is righteous work? 1. Working by right law. God has established...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high_ SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES I. THERE IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHRISTIAN ECONOMY, THE BESTOWMENT OF SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES ON MANKIND. 1. In what ma...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers_ THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT As the communication of the Spirit is necessary to produce a reformation, so a large communication or outpou...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    PEACE THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Isaiah 32:17. _The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever_. A large part of the book of Isaiah is taken...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VIII. A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KINGDOM (Isaiah 32:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 32:1 A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KING

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter 32 Isaiah jumps over a couple of millennia at least, as he looks forward. As God is going to come down and as a crouching lion roaring and so forth, over her prey, in verse...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:18; 1 John 4:17; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Peter 1:10; 2 Pet

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The work — The effect of this shall be prosperity. Quietness — Tranquility, both of mind and outward estate. Assurance — Of God's mercy, and the fulfilling of his promises....

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